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From: "William Overington" <WOverington@ngo.globalnet.co.uk>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: "Rick McGowan" <rick@unicode.org>; <archive@ngo.globalnet.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and
Unapproved Characters)
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> Rick McGowan wrote:
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> >I have several personal seals, and anyone can get a pesonal seal for a
few
> >bucks. The kindly gent at any local hanko shop would be delighted to
carve
> >anything under the sun.
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> Can you say more about personal seals please. What are they made of and
how
> are they used please?
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> Also, what does the word hanko mean please? I looked it up at
> http://www.yahoo.com in the search and got various including a website
about
> papers and rubber stamps etc but the dictionary at Yahoo did not have the
> work hanko.
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The name "Hanko" comes from the Japanese word "stamp."
It is the seal (or "chop") that the Japanese use as "signature" for official
documents.
see: http://www.hankodesigns.com/ArtStamps.htm
Courtesy of Google
> William Overington
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