From: Thomas Chan (tc31@cornell.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 15:39:07 EST
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote:
> >Michael Everson wrote:
> >>Happy New Year of the Y嫕g to everybody! (I can't work out whether
> >>it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
> >
> >Ram.
>
> europe.cnn.com (which I was looking at for other, sadder reasons),
> says Goat. My local Superquinn's (large grocery chain) has had signs
> on all the Chinese food for weeks which says Ram. My Chinese
> dictionary says Sheep.
And the website of the Pearl River (www.pearlriver.com) department store
in New York City says "lamb"! unihan.txt says that U+7F8A is
"sheep, goat; KangXi radical 123". On Google, "year of the goat" has the
lead.
And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the
guiwei year of the sixty-year "cycle of Cathay".
Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu
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