> By _gong1_, I presume he is referring to U+5DE5, as in gong1zuo4.
Yes.
> That character written "with a jog in its vertical stroke" is
> simply a stylistic variant on the same character. That glyph would
> be unified with U+5DE5 as a character. Or if not, why not?
Because Mao uses it distinctively from the canonical form of _gong1_.
So do sources that quote this passage of Mao's (I know of at least
one). The importance of _Mao2 Ze2dong1 xuan3 ji2_ calls for the
inclusion of this variant as a character.
> As for a _ren2_ consisting of "three
> _pier3_ crossing the _na4_", none of the Chinese here can make any
> sense of that --
Not "consisting of"; it is a U+4EBA with three extra _pier3_ across
its _na4_.
> a picture would help!
For convenience' sake, I'll make a simple drawing with fixed-width
ASCII characters:
/
/
/ \ /
/ X /
/ / X /
/ / X
/ / \__
> But in any case, the way
> Scott is describing this sounds like another glyph variant -- and
> not a separate character to be encoded.
Again, Mao contrasts it with the canonical form of _ren2_.
Scott Horne
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