On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Thomas Chan wrote: > (Was U+56ED what you saw, James?--I don't have my Krause catalog by me at > the moment, but I think it was present on older PRC coinage.)
A correction to myself here--I thought I had seen U+56ED as a currency unit, but now I cannot find a reference in my notes, so I'm retracting this one. James Kass said: >I don't blame you. According to Krause... >One Dollar (Yuan) = 100 Cents (Fen/Hsien) = 1000 Cash (Wen/Ch'ien) = > (=) 0.72 Tael (Liang) = 7 Mace and 2 Candareens >...and, that's just for starters. Well, the last part is a different system--mace and candareens are weight measures for silver coins as part of the "tael" system: liang/qian/fei/li (tael/mace/candareen/?). Hence, there are three systems: dollar, cash, and tael. The 1/100th units fen and xian (hsien in Krause) are part of different systems: yuan-jiao-fen in the north, and yuan-hao-xian in the south. (xian U+4ED9 < English 'cent', even in Macau, where 1/100th of a pataca is an avo.) The northern and southern systems may be seen residually in contemporary Hong Kong and Macau, and historically during the early 20th century during a period of provincial minting in mainland China, where people used their local terminology on their coins, with the exception of the 1.0 unit. The situation is similar for the 1/10th unit; jiao in the north and hao in the south. Marco Cimarosti said: >U+5143 4~6~D^4~D6~^A >U+5186 4~6~D^4~DC^4~DC >U+5706 4~6~D^4~D^4~DC >U+570E 4~6~D^4~D^I >U+5713 4~6~D^4~D^O Thank you for finding these--I didn't realize that U+570E was encoded independently of U+5713, and not as a font variant of the latter. (And I had forgotten the obvious U+5713 ~ U+5706 connection.) I checked Krause--U+5713 may be seen on pre-war Japanese coinage for "yen". Alan Wood said: >I have added all of the symbols from this discussion to the second table on >my page at: >http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/currency_symbols.html Please remove U+56ED--that was my mistake. U+6587 is not entirely appropriate there--while it was a currency unit (approx. 1/1000th yuan), it was gone in all regions by the early 1930s, and now it is just (a least) a colloquial Cantonese synonym for yuan, sort of like northern kuai4 U+584A/U+5757 'piece'. I can provide you with a bunch of other terms for 1/10th and 1/100th units, but once one steps into the realm of Han characters, one is no longer dealing with symbols but words, and the list can inflate very quickly unless restrictions are set, such as primary currency units (not 1/10th or 1/100th units) in contemporary use (not historical) that appear appear on currency (not other terms like "bucks", "benjamins", etc). U+5713 I wouldn't list as "yen/yuan variant"--it should be on the same level as U+5143 and U+5186, as U+5713 (Yuan) is the unit used in Taiwan and Hong Kong on the currency (despite being "dollars" in English). Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
