The claim that the word jing 淨 originated from the geminate word canjun 參軍is credible with reference to historical Chinese phonology and related dialect phenomena. The sound-compound word canjun was pronounced "*ts'juen" in the time of the Qieyun 切韻, but was pronounced "*ts'jeŋ" in the Song dynasties and later. This can be explained as the result of the reduction of the final nasals in the Wu dialect of the Linan 臨安area, which was the substratum language there. All the final nasals in the Linan area merged into a -ŋ ending due to the simplification of finals in the Song and Jin dynasties. It is also closely related to the disappearance of the medial "u" on the close division-III and division-IV rhyme groups (合口細音韻母) in the Wu dialect. In contrast, jing was pronounced as "*dzje ŋ" in the time of the Qieyun, but as "*ts'je ŋ"or "*tsje ŋ" in the Song. This occurred due to the devocalization of the Mandarin dialects. The two pronunciations of jing are both closely similar to "*ts'je ŋ", the sound-compound word canjun