| The use of Pinyin poses problems of distinguishing homographs, as in the 24 etymologically unrelated forms spelt lian. |
| Other homographs have known to cause problems even for native speakers. |
| The target pool consisted of 100 homographs divided into 20 sets of 5 each. |
| Diacritic signs or marks are actually signs which, when added to a letter, modify its value, or allow to distinguish between two homographs. |
| Some of Croft's other genitives are also problematic, though the homographs are still valid. |
| They may, however, be put off by homographs and polysemous words, such as the various uses of bank and crane. |
