青
青 is Unicode character number 38738 id est, X9752, KanjiLiberal.
Picture: 青 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE9 x9D x92 in the hexadecimal representation and
233 157 146 in the decimal representation
In Japanese, 青 may refer to color blue.
In Japanese, 青 can be pronounced as «Ao», «あお»
However, character 青 may have also different meanings and different pronunciations dependently on the context.
Character X2ED8 ⻘ is easy to confuse with character X9752 青.
Neither of these two characters are allowed in Tarja language.
The phonetic transliterations can be used instead.
At the translation to Japanese, character X9752 青 seems to be better than
character X2ED8 ⻘.
Character X9752 青 seems to be more usual than
character X2ED8 ⻘.
Confusion
KanjiLiberal (CJK) character X9752 青 [2] is easy to confuse with KanjiRadical character X2ED8 ⻘ [3]. At some computers, characters ⻘ and 青 look the same. In addition, they have similar meanings and similar pronunciations.
Even a native Japanese speaker looking at pictures of characters
⻘ and 青
is unlikely to guess:
Which to them corresponds to character X2ED8?
Which to them corresponds to character X9752?
Tarja
Due to the confusion above, neither 青 nor ⻘ are allowed in Tarja.
Instead, words «あお», «Ao», «Blue» can be used.
If namely character 青 (or ⻘) needs to be specified,
it should be referred with word X9752 (or X2ED8).
Such a boycott may have sense until the bug of the software be fixed
and different pictures for characters ⻘ and 青 become standard, commonly accepted default supported in various software at various operational systems.
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8CCwTGsnQY LPT N5 KANJI REVIEW! 180 N5 kanji words that previously appeared in JLPT Kanji Reading TOMO sensei May 22, 2025 #jlptn5 #jlptn5kanji In this video, you can learn 180 Kanji words that have already appeared in the previous JLPT N5 Kanji Reading part. I hope you will use this as a review before JLPT.
- ↑ https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=9752&B1=Show 青 9752 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9752 Han Script confuse: ⻘ .. (kJapanese) セイ|ショウ|チン|あお|あおい
- ↑ https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=2ED8 ⻘ 2ED8 CJK RADICAL BLUE Han Script confuse: 青