Re: CJK Ideograph Fragments

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon May 10 2010 - 12:20:47 CDT

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    在 May 8, 2010 5:11 PM 時， Mark Davis ☕ 寫到：

    > There are 666 (coincidence?) characters that map to themselves (where you'd only expect that of "base" radicals).
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    Actually, no, you wouldn't expect this. Some characters are assigned radicals arbitrarily, and not in a fashion reflecting either their structure nor their history; the prototypical example I use in this case is (surprise!) U+4E95 井.

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