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幻の人類 by CNN, 2020

日本⼈ by imagenavi.jp, 2021

X2F08 ⼈ is Unicode character number 12040, KanjiRadical.

⼈ can be pronounced as hito and refer to an abstract person, Human, Humanity, Homo sapience, society.

Unicode character X4EBA 人 (KanjiLiberal) have similar picture, pronunciation and semantic.

Confusion: ⼈ and 人

The Unicode characters KanjiRadical X2F08 ⼈ and KanjiLiberal X4EBA 人 have similar pictures, similar pronounciations and similar semantics.
in addition, they look similar to characters X2F0A ⼊ and X5165 入, that can be pronounced "Iriguchi" and may mean entrance.

However, at the work with texts, in particular, at the search and the replacement, ⼈ and 人 appear as different characters; their interpretation by varies software is not the same. This causes errors, mistakes, confusions. In order to handle this confusion, some programming is necessary.

The Utf8 encoding of each of these characters can be revealed with PHP program du.t; it can be called from the command line as

php du.t ⼈⼊人入

The output is

⼈⼊人入
The array has 12 bytes; here is its splitting:
e2 bc 88 e2 bc 8a e4 ba ba e5 85 a5
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "⼈"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "⼊"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "人"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "入"
}

Unicode character number 12040 id est, X2F08
Picture: ⼈ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBC x88 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 136 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 12042 id est, X2F0A
Picture: ⼊ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBC x8A in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 138 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 20154 id est, X4EBA
Picture: 人 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE4 xBA xBA in the hexadecimal representation and
228 186 186 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 20837 id est, X5165
Picture: 入 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE5 x85 xA5 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 133 165 in the decimal representation

Graphics

Image of X2F08 ⼈ looks the Greek letter \( \Lambda \) without serifs and with slight bended down lines.

Character X2F08 ⼈ may have the same or similar view (dependently on the sofrware).

Also, a little bis similar are characters X2F0A ⼊ and X5165 入, but they look also similar to the lowercase Greek letter letter \( \lambda \).

Phonetics

Character X2F08 ⼈ can be pronounced as "hito".

Character X4EBA 人 may have similar pronunciation

Semantics

Character X2F08 ⼈ may refer to a person, human, Humanity, Homo Sapience, society.

Character X4EBA 人 may have similar neaning.

Also, the similar meaning can be attributed to the less usual kanjis X2F2C ⼬ , X5C6E 屮 , XFA3C 屮.

Reference

Keywords

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