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How do people guess the pronunciation of a character with phonetic component P?
About the first paragraph of E-Ping Rau’s comment: I’ve been hesitating over bringing up the issue of descriptive versus prescriptive pronunciations in this matter. Following this strategy, people ought to guess either kàng or háng for 钪 (scandium); the former (also the pronunciation of the component 亢) happens to be the right answer. The correct pronunciation nuò is found only in 诺 (and in the interjection 喏 here, which is nuò and (I think) also nuó), which happens to be the most frequent character containing 若, aside from 若 itself. It isn’t surprising that some sort of token frequency matters, not just type frequency. P as phonetic component. The grapheme isn’t in use as an independent character in modern Chinese, so this 广韵-based pseudo-Mandarin is pretty useless and meaningless (广韵 is an old dictionary with information on pronunciation in Middle Chinese). On the other hand, for such technical terms I assume that people are more likely to regard dictionaries as absolutely authoritative. The pronunciation of 咅 is shown in 汉语大字典 (a big character dictionary) as pǒu. Interesting that 锫 (berkelium) is (prescriptively) the latter; this is consistent with the lower frequency of the bèi-characters 焙 and 蓓, but bèi would match the English better. For characters containing this as a phonetic component, good guesses would be bèi (in 倍, 焙, 蓓) and péi (in 陪, 培, 赔). In fact, they will remember this element from high school (so there’s no need to guess in this particular case). How do people guess the pronunciation of a character with phonetic component P? It’s so frequent that people will guess nuò. It seems like people will intuitively consider all those characters and guess the most frequent pronunciation. On the one hand people will guess certain pronunciations that are inaccurate. In any case, bèi would conflict with 钡 (barium). 镄 (fermium) is fèi, and 费 fèi occurs in no commonly used character as a proper component. Why does every character have to have a monosyllabic Mandarin pronunciation? An example where the correct pronunciation is not identical to P but to that of a character containing P as a proper component would be 锘 nuò (nobelium). First of all, sometimes there isn’t much to guess wrong. The phonetic component 若 is pronounced ruò in isolation and in 偌 (together with the infrequent character 箬). Isn’t it interesting how rarely lexicographic resources explicitly indicate an honest “unclear” and instead try to force answers?
Now to a particularly interesting case. Going back to my point above that Chinese linguists and dictionaries like to pretend that everything has a modern pronunciation, in this particular case it would be nice for resources to have a short entry telling me that this grapheme doesn’t have well-known Cantonese and Mandarin pronunciations. That often there is no right answer one knows when one has to dig deep to find any information, plus the sources might disagree. Human language is limited after all, and there’s a reason these disciplines use special terms, abbreviations, symbols, and diagrams. Or: 虍 (radical 141) as fu2 (popular) vs fu1 (some prescription). This doesn’t help with distinguishing 硒 (selenium) and 锡 (tin) though, which are both xī (and then there’s 矽, silicon). Many lexicographic resources for Cantonese will show 錫 (tin) as sek3, even though everyone in HK says sek6. The phonetic in 铊 (thallium) is 它 tā, but because characters properly containing this phonetic are nearly all pronounced tuó (佗, 坨, 沱, 陀, 驼, 砣, 鸵, 跎) – notable exceptions are 蛇 shé and 舵 duò – many reporters got it wrong when discussing the thallium poisoning case of Zhu Ling, guessing tuó instead of the correct (and more fitting) tā. Continuing with Cantonese examples, if most people (more precisely: those who have an opinion) will pronounce 疋 (radical 103) as pat1 it doesn’t really matter that some sources insist on so1. Now to a different topic: How can one be clear? It’s strange that there aren’t polysyllabic alternatives in Chinese to deal with the issue of homophones of chemical elements. Dictionaries can also be wrong. One should assume that the popular/intuitive guesses are accurate for the most recently discovered elements (see here), whose names were picked later, but I’ll let someone else do the legwork. Every so often noone seems to know or the sources are silent. For gases people will often say 气, but that strictly speaking denotes the element in the gaseous state. Most (living and written) sources have no information on 疒 (radical 104), and it doesn’t mean much that that there exists at least one source showing the pronunciations nik6 and jim5 each. Sometimes it’s okay for something to not be serializable/parsable; it would be sad if such formalisms had to be limited by the requirement for everything in them being reducable to phoneme strings in a straightforward way. A descriptively correct statement then would be “noone really knows but people might guess X”. Roman-letter symbols is an easier method. People might not know the “right” pronunciations. The situation is similar for some radicals from the 康熙字典, a dictionary with a well-known radical system. In general, one can say 元素 (“the element “) to make clear that one is talking about chemical elements. Finally, after all the criticism of Chinese characters, we should keep in mind that the language of chemistry, like that of mathematics, relies heavily on symbols and other notation.