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Table 1 Comparing impure and pure rhymes in Ode 10 and how they are reflected in different reconstruction systems

From: Vowel purity and rhyme evidence in Old Chinese reconstruction

  1. MCH refers to the Middle Chinese reading following Baxter (1992), Pan Wuyun 潘悟云 is the reconstruction following the system of Pan 潘悟云 (2000, available online at http://www.eastling.org/oc/oldage.aspx), OCBS refers to the system by Baxter and Sagart (2014), Wang Li 王力 to the system by Wang 王力 (1980), and Starostin to the system by Starostin (1989), (available online at http://starling.rinet.ru). Rhyme judgments follow Baxter (1992) and Wang 王力 (1980), and group reflects the "traditional rhyme group”, the label used in traditional Chinese phonology