Fig. 3From: Vowel purity and rhyme evidence in Old Chinese reconstructionComparing the rhyme patterns across different reconstruction systems. The figure shows three subsets of 100 characters each as they occur in the rhyme data of the Book of Odes; both include missing characters and the respective vowel readings. While a definite structural similarity can be detected, we also find remarkable differences. In the figure, each cell corresponds to one reading for a given character in the row. Since the characters are too small to be readable, we offer a high-resolution version of this figure in the Additional file 1: supplementary materialBack to article page