Hello, Here's a list of frequently used Han characters for Hakka and Minnan, Chinese dialects.
It contains several EXT-B characters that you can test: http://bobbytung.github.io/TaigiHakkaIdeograph/ <http://bobbytung.github.io/TaigiHakkaIdeograph/> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18CUbZ7tsvZ4QbUj3xcfYi9EGqsft4T37WtUMX9v2STQ/pubhtml <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18CUbZ7tsvZ4QbUj3xcfYi9EGqsft4T37WtUMX9v2STQ/pubhtml> Bobby Tung W3C invited expert Editor of CLREQ > via Unicode <[email protected]> 於 2017年11月14日 下午1:45 寫道： > > Dear Peter, > > since the Chinese characters below are meaningless in Chinese using them > should not be a first choice, as they are meaningless, so gibberish, just not > complete gibberish. > > Plane 2 has a fair number of older Chinese characters, so someone with a > knowledge of ancient Chinese might well be able make something meaningful. > Run a competition in China would be one way to get suggestions, spotting a > good suggestion is easier than making one. > > Plane 2 has Cantonese, Vietnamese and Zhuang characters. The number of > Cantonese characters is small, so making phrases using only them would be > difficult. Both Vietnamese and Zhuang have a much larger number of characters > so much easier to make something meaningful. > > The following Zhuang proverb, or saying > > 𮤯𫭴𭣀𭒹𣐡𮤯𩜋𭸘𭡘 > > "Plant sweet potatoes in the field, and raise pigs in the sty."[lit: house, > as the bottom floor of tradional house used for livestock and people live in > floor above.] > > However third and eighth characters are not the most common used. > > Regards > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 14.11.2017 06:38, Peter Constable via Unicode wrote: >> I discussed this with one of my Chinese co-workers, and we came up >> with the following: >> >> “𠀀𠀁𠀂𠀃𠀄 >> 𦬣𦬤𦬥𦬦𦬧 >> 𦩒𦩓𦩔𦩕𦩖 >> 𨣫𨣬𨣭𨣮𨣯” >> >> Factors in the choice of characters were: >> - different radicals >> - for a given radical, have a sequence of consecutive characters so >> people get the idea it's not a sentence but just a sequence of >> characters with related meanings >> - radical groups increase in complexity >> >> >> It's not a sentence that can be read, but there's an obvious pattern, >> so it's also not completely gibberish. >> >> >> Peter >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: James Kass [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 2:29 PM >> To: Peter Constable <[email protected]> >> Cc: Unicode list <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Plane-2-only string >> >> Peter Constable wrote, >> >>> We don't want to add BMP characters to the ExtB fonts. >> >> So the sample text would lack punctuation. Given that the >> Supplementary Ideographic Plane is composed of rare and historical >> characters from multiple sources, I suspect that the short answer to >> Peter's original question is: "No". >
