I have updated my document at
http://www.unicode.org/~asmus/what_is_this_character.pdf with much of the
information supplied by people on this list and some others.
All characters are now mapped to Unicoe characters or character sequences
where I felt that this was possible. If there are obvio
John H. Jenkins scripsit:
> KangXi says (if I'm understanding it correctly)
> something like "animal with curved horns." (It's more complex than
> that, but I think I caught the essence.)
It reminds me of the desperate definition of "horse", sense 1, in the
English-language _Century Dictionary
Thomas Chan scripsit:
> And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the
> guiwei year of the sixty-year "cycle of Cathay".
So that line of Tennyson's only meant that Europe did things 6/5 as
fast as China? I interpreted "cycle" in that context to mean a
century (cf. Fre
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Thomas Chan wrote:
And the website of the Pearl River (www.pearlriver.com) department store
in New York City says "lamb"! unihan.txt says that U+7F8A is
"sheep, goat; KangXi radical 123".
Stolen from Mathews, as it happens.
On Google, "year of t
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote:
> >Michael Everson wrote:
> >>Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
> >>it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
> >
> >Ram.
>
> europe.cnn.com (which I was looking a
At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote:
Michael Everson wrote:
Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
Ram.
europe.cnn.com (which I was looking at for other, sadder reasons),
says Goat. My local Superquinn's
Michael Everson wrote:
Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
Ram.
Eric.
Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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