Re: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK)

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 13:39:00 EST


Marco said:

> Some of these characters are quite common in modern life (e.g., "oxygen" is
> certainly written somewhere in all Chinese hospitals), so it would surprise
> me if they are not in Unicode.
>

And the ideographs for the elemental gasses, too, are encoded:

H 6C2B
He 6C26
N 6C2E
Ne 6C16
F 6C1F
Cl 6C2F
Kr 6C2A
...

and yes:

O 6C27 Oxygen (yang3).

Pierpaolo said:

> I cannot check now if these characters are included in Unicode as I don't
> have TUS handy in this moment.

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html (The Online Edition)

and

http://www.unicode.org/charts/draftunicode31/ (for CJK Extension B, etc.)

--Ken



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