Editing Homograph (section)

===Modern Chinese===
Many homographs in Old Chinese and Middle Chinese also exist in modern [[Chinese language|Chinese]] varieties. Homographs which did not exist in Old Chinese or Middle Chinese often come into existence due to differences between [[literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters]]. Other homographs may have been created due to merging two different characters into the same glyph during script reform (See [[Simplified Chinese characters]] and [[Shinjitai]]).

Some examples of homographs in [[Cantonese]] from Middle Chinese are:
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! Word !! Pronunciation<sub>a</sub> !! Meaning<sub>a</sub> !! Pronunciation<sub>b</sub> !! Meaning<sub>b</sub>
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| 易 || {{IPA|[jiː˨]}} || easy || {{IPA|[jɪk˨]}} || (v.) change
|-
| 上 || {{IPA|[ɕœːŋ˩˧]}} || rise, give || {{IPA|[ɕœːŋ˨]}} || above, top, emperor
|-
| 長 || {{IPA|[tɕʰœːŋ˨˩]}} || long || {{IPA|[tɕœːŋ˧˥]}} || lengthen, elder
|}