On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 04:21 AM, William Overington wrote:
> I have been looking at the characters in the CJK Unified Ideographs > Extension B document. These are the characters from U+020000 through to > U+02A6DF, which, as I understand it, are the rarer CJK characters. > Actually, this is not quite true. The vast majority are rare, of course, and none of them are exactly *common*, but how rare they are depends on what you're writing. A small number, for example, are from HK SCS and reflect current needs for Hong Kong, including general-purpose Cantonese writing. (One is generally not supposed to write Cantonese, even if one speaks it, hence the lag in getting some Cantonese-specific characters added.) > I wonder if any of the people who read this list who understand the > languages involved might please like to say what any one or two of these > characters, of their choice, mean please, just as a matter of general > cultural interest for people who see these characters in the Unicode > specification and, though not themselves knowledgeable of the languages, > find the characters interesting for their artistry and history. > > My personal favorite is U+233B4, which means a tree stump. (It's formed by taking the "tree" radical and moving the cross-bar to the top of the character instead of having it in the middle.) U+20C43 is a Cantonese-specific character meaning thin or flat. Altogether, currently eighteen characters from Extension B currently have a kDefinition entry in Unihan.txt. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
