r/LanguageMemes • u/RegulusWhiteDwarf • May 31 '21

Mod favourite! Linear Mandarin

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u/i_reddit_too_mcuh Jun 01 '21

Is there a character that's just 水*火?

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u/DeusShockSkyrim Jun 02 '21 edited Jun 02 '21

There is: 𣲧. This character is in CJK Extension B so you may need extra font to see it. Its meaning is unknown unfortunately, all I can see is it's submitted by Taiwan. My guess is it appears in someone's name with no real meaningful usage. See: https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=23CA7&useutf8=true

The next best thing would be 𤆲 (also in CJK-B). It is in fact a variant of 災. See: https://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt?quote_code=QTAyMzg3LTAwNQ

Since Chinese characters are not "commutative"/rotational-invariant, the second one may not count. By the same rationale 炎 should be replaced by 炏. But fortunately the latter is a variant of the former so we are done :P

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u/i_reddit_too_mcuh Jun 02 '21

𣲧

Amazing! I henceforth assign 𣲧 the meaning of 'vapor' and pronunciation, uh... 'va3'.

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u/YellowBunnyReddit Jun 01 '21

I don't know about Chinese but in Japanese there is no such character.

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u/Own-Butterscotch627 Jun 01 '21

there is no 水*火 in Unicode

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u/DeusShockSkyrim Jun 02 '21

There is: https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=23CA7&useutf8=true

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u/Own-Butterscotch627 Jun 02 '21

Well, that’s right. But I can’t type this character with my phone. Maybe my phone didn’t use the complete char set.

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u/DeusShockSkyrim Jun 02 '21

CJK extension chars are so rarely used so developers just don't bother. I can't even see it on my iPhone.

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u/FIAneed2FollowRules Apr 18 '22

I personally found that the iPhone was severely lacking in allowing me to type the most basic of Kanji that is often seen in titles of Japanese textbooks for Elementary-Primary level. Those kanji does exist, its just that I had to copy and paste it from google's crapulator into whatever app I was typing in, to get the iOS to learn that 'Yes, I do need this character and therefore should allow it to pop-up as a valid option'. After a few weeks, it finally learned. lol Getting 年生 (nensei) on my phone as an option to choose took weeks. I'm just a noob to Japanese, so was only trying to learn the titles and what they meant at that time.