The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Rafal]

Zhu is followed 5 out of 7 times by zhi, once by zia and once by sha. There is no such pattern in the VM. The fact that daiir and odaiin have to be fitted to be daiin to even have a semblance of a match here speaks for itself.

This is not a problem, the theory doesn't suggest literally Chinese, but some eastern language with monosyllable structure, so it's ok if the patterns are not fully matched.

I don't know if Voynichese is some Oriental language or not and don't feel competent to discuss it.

But the paper we talk about makes a claim that I feel competent enough to discuss.
It claims that Quire 20 of Voynich Manuscript is a version of  classical Chinese text called Sennong Bencao Jing.

Then it compares one paragraph of both text claiming that the bottom paragraph on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the paragraph about a rooster (I guess Jorge preffered to avoid "cock" word   ) from Sennong Bencao Jing.

But they just don't match. One word may match after some gymnastics but other don't. Most words are unique in the paragraph (hapax legomena) but there are some repetitions and Chinese repetitions don't match Voynichese repetitions as I tried to show in my earlier post.

And if the identification of the text as Sennong Bencao Jing is weak then identification of "zhu" as "daiin" is equally weak.

Jorge, are you able to propose what otaiin, okaiin and qokaiin could mean?