Note 287 — Chapter XV
Reading edition
བོད་ The last letter of the Tibetan word is not pronounced, but it modifies the phonetic value of the vowel sound. As regards the Chinese character 番 of which the phonetic value in modern Chinese is generally fan, we find several cases in which the sound is still bo or po. Mr Kingsmill mentions 鄱 p'o (as in the characters used for the P'o Yang Lake). The characters 嶓, 皤 and 播 are similar instances.