Re: Plese add a Chinese Hanzi

From: Charlie Ruland <ruland_at_luckymail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 21:36:27 +0200

* John H. Jenkins <jenkins_at_apple.com> [2012-05-28 20:54]:
>
> On 2012年5月28日, at 上午10:21, Charlie Ruland <ruland_at_luckymail.com
> <mailto:ruland_at_luckymail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Zhao,
>> 1. If the character 鱼⿰丹 that you would like to have encoded is a
>> contemporary Standard Chinese word or morpheme, then what is its
>> pronunciation?
>
> FWIW, the correct syntax is ⿰鱼丹. I take it that he would also
> like ⿰魚丹.

Right. 鱼⿰丹 is the syntax I sometimes use when teaching Chinese
characters, whereas ⿰鱼丹 is Unicode. Sorry for the mess!
Charlie

>
>> 2. Can you provide material (for example photos, scans from books,
>> etc.) that clearly shows that 鱼⿰丹 is used as a single character?
>> By which group of people is it used?
>
> Exactly. *No* hanzi will be added to Unicode/ISO 10646 without solid
> evidence of actual use. Generally, this means authoritative, printed
> materials (a dictionary, government ID). Handwritten materials could
> conceivably be used, but they would have to be awfully convincing.
> Well-known websites with the character embedded *as a graphic* has
> been used as a past, but in those cases the character was quite
> well-known.
>
>
>> Charlie
>>
>> * shi zhao <shizhao_at_gmail.com> [2012-05-28 17:07]:
>>> PS:
>>> zh-hans: 鱼+丹
>>> zh-hant: 魚+丹
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/5/28 shi zhao <shizhao_at_gmail.com <mailto:shizhao_at_gmail.com>>
>>>
>>> Plese add a Hanzi to Unihan: a fish name 鱼+丹 =/ Danio./
>>> /
>>> /
>>> see:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danio
>>> https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:%28%E9%AD%9A%E4%B8%B9%29%E5%B1%AC
>>> http://www.cnffd.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=3_11_64_284
>>> <http://www.cnffd.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=3_11_64_284>
>>>
>>> http://zd1.brim.ac.cn/Mnamelist.asp?start=1982
>>> http://hello.area.com.tw/is_bs.cgi?areacode=nt097&bsid=2.9.1.1.3
>>> <http://hello.area.com.tw/is_bs.cgi?areacode=nt097&bsid=2.9.1.1.3>
>>> https://www.google.com/search?q=Danio+ 魚丹
>>> <https://www.google.com/search?q=Danio+%E9%AD%9A%E4%B8%B9>
>>>
>>>
>>> Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/
>>> My blog: http://shizhao.org <http://shizhao.org/>
>>> twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao
>>>
>>> [[zh:User:Shizhao]]
>>>
>>>
>
> =====
> Hoani H. Tinikini
> John H. Jenkins
> jenkins_at_apple.com <mailto:jenkins_at_apple.com>
>
>
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