RE: How to tell Japanese from Chinese.

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 08:01:49 EDT


てんど wrote:
> Doesn't this kanji
> <bad-ascii-art>
> |
> -------
> /
> _/
> _/
> / |____
> </bad ascii art>
> NOT to be confused with hiragana "e" (oy vey),
> usually only appear in Chinese?

It seems not. Altavista brings up 721,100 web pages in Japanese containing
"之" (U+4E4B):
        
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%E4%B9%8B&kl=ja&search=Search&pg
=q

... it also found 13,780 Korean pages, despite the fact that Korean is
mostly written in Hangul:
        
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%E4%B9%8B&kl=ko&search=Search&pg
=q

... the funny thing is that it also found 56,565 pages in English:
        
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%E4%B9%8B&kl=en&search=Search

... and 5 in Italian
        
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%E4%B9%8B&kl=it&search=Search

Who said that multilingual document are a rarity?

> Pardon my incoherence. I haven't had enough sake.

So it's sake that makes you so coherent normally?

_ Marco



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