... and the signific meaning three. Nôm character ,(tay, hand) is made up of the signific (hand) and the phonetic (read tây). Nômcharacter (trăm, hundred) is made up of the signific (hundred) and ... distinction between initial consonants d- and gi-,between initial consonants ch- and tr-, between final consonants -n and -ng, between finalconsonants -c(k) and -t.32)As can just be seen, Chữ ... Maurice M. Durand and Nguyễn Trần Huân, pp. 181, 189.45) Concerning the Collection of Nôm texts at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris,see: Alexander Barton Woodside, Vietnam and The Chinese...