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Drawing of characters ± [1]

(X2F1F) is unicode character number 12063, KanjiRadical

Semantic

(X2F1F) can be interpreted as "Earth" [2]

Wiktionary [3] suggests several meanings:

earth; soil 這兒的土夠肥的。 / 这儿的土够肥的。 ― Zhèr de tǔ gòu féi de. ― The soil here is quite fertile.

clay

crude opium

dust

local; native; indigenous

Encoding

Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 BC 9F 226 188 159 14859423 11100010 10111100 10011111
UTF-16BE 2F 1F 47 31 12063 00101111 00011111
UTF-16LE 1F 2F 31 47 7983 00011111 00101111
UTF-32BE 00 00 2F 1F 0 0 47 31 12063 00000000 00000000 00101111 00011111
UTF-32LE 1F 2F 00 00 31 47 0 0 523173888 00011111 00101111 00000000 00000000

Phonetic

In Japanese language, character (X2F1F) [1] can be pronounced as ト (to) or ド (do), dependently on the context.

Confusion

There are several unicode characters that have similar pictures. Their Utf8 encoding can be revealed with command

php du.t ±⼟⼠土士

However, file du.t should be loaded for the execution. The output is:

±⼟⼠土士
The array has 14 bytes; here is its splitting:
c2 b1 e2 bc 9f e2 bc a0 e5 9c 9f e5 a3 ab
array(5) {
  [0]=>
  string(2) "±"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "⼟"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "⼠"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "土"
  [4]=>
  string(3) "士"
}

Unicode character number 00177 id est, X00B1
Picture: ± ; uses 2 bytes. These bytes are:
XC2 XB1 in the hexadecimal representation and
194 177 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 12063 id est, X2F1F
Picture:  ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBC X9F in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 159 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 12064 id est, X2F20
Picture:  ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBC XA0 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 160 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 22303 id est, X571F
Picture:  ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE5 X9C X9F in the hexadecimal representation and
229 156 159 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 22763 id est, X58EB
Picture:  ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE5 XA3 XAB in the hexadecimal representation and
229 163 171 in the decimal representation


The KanjiRadical (X2F1F) and the KanjiLiberal (X571F) can be considered as synonyms; their meaning and their pdonounciation is similar.

As for character ± (X00B1) and the KanjiRadical X2F20 and rhe KanjiLiberal (X58EB), they have other meanings. (Althopugh the last two also can be considered as a pair of synonyms.)

Due to the graphical semihance, the characters mentioned may cause confusion. This confusion is recognized [4][5].

Even a Japanese native speaker, looking at characters ±
cannot guess,
which of them is X00B1,
which of them is X2F1F,
which of them is X571F,
which of them is X2F20 and
which of them is X58EB.


The KanjiRadical (X2F1F) and the KanjiLiberal (X571F) can be considered as synonyms; their meaning and their pdonounciation is similar.

As for character ± (X00B1) and the KanjiRadical X2F20 and rhe KanjiLiberal (X58EB), they have other meanings, although the last two also can be considered as a pair of synonyms.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9C%9F#Pronunciation_2 .. 日本語 フリー百科事典ウィキペディアに 土 の記事があります。 発音 音読み : 呉音 : ツ 漢音 : ト 慣用音 : ド 訓読み : つち 人名 : ひじ 名詞 (つち)地を構成する物質。一般に、石や砂に比べ、粒子が細かく、湿り気を帯びているものをさす。土壌。 .. 朝鮮語 土 * ハングル: 토 音訓読み: 흙 토 文化観光部2000年式: to マッキューン=ライシャワー式: t'o イェール式: tho 熟語: 朝鮮語 토성 <土星> 토요일 <土曜日> ベトナム語 土 * ローマ字表記 Quốc ngữ: thổ
  2. https://unicode-table.com/en/2F1F/ Kangxi Radical Earth U+2F1F Click to copy and paste symbol Technical information Name Kangxi Radical Earth Unicode number U+2F1F HTML-code ⼟ CSS-code \2F1F Block Kangxi Radicals Unicode version: 3.0 (1999) Symbol meaning Kangxi Radical Earth. Kangxi Radicals. Kangxi Radical Earth was approved as part of Unicode 3.0 in 1999.
  3. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/⼟ see also: , , 𡈽 and ± .. earth; soil 這兒的土夠肥的。 / 这儿的土够肥的。 ― Zhèr de tǔ gòu féi de. ― The soil here is quite fertile. clay crude opium dust local; native; indigenous
  4. https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=2F1F 2F1F KANGXI RADICAL EARTH Han Script id: allowed confuse: , ,
  5. https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=58EB 58EB CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58EB Han Script id: restricted confuse: , ,

Keywords

du.t, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, Unicode, X00B1, X2F1F, X2F20, X571F, X58EB, X7537,

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