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⽈ X2F48 is Unicode character number 1210, KanjiRadical, Nichi.

For ⽈, Wictionary suggests the same pronunciations and meanings, as for 曰 X66F0: 曰（エツ、ひらび、いわく） (etsu, hirabi, iwaku) and no specific meaning. Perhaps, it fall under the press of censorship and denotes something tabooed.

As working hypothesis, ⽈ is supposed to have similar meanings, as other Nichi characters.

Nichi: ⽇, ⽈, 日, 曰

⽈ is easy to confuse with 3 other Unicode characters, that are also qualified as Nichi.

Nichi is set of the following Unicode characters:

⽇ X2F47 , KanjiRadical

⽈ X2F48 , KanjiRadical

日 X65E5 , KanjiLiberal

曰 X66F0 , KanjiLiberal

Also, term Nichi may refer to each of these four characters.
Pronunciation and meaning of Nichi depends on the realization and on the context.

The four Unicode characters look similar at the screen. Even a native Japanese speaker, looking at characters ⽇, ⽈, 日, 曰 is unlikely to answer:
Which of them is KanjiRadical X2F47?
Which of them is KanjiRadical X2F48?
Which of them is KanjiLiberal X65E5?
Which of them is KanjiLiberal X66F0?

In order to avoid mistakes, some programming is necessary. The Utf8 encoding of these characters can be calculated with PHP program ud.t; file uni.t also should be loaded. Then, command

php ud.t 2F47 2F48 65E5 66F0

reveals the encoding:

2F47 12103 ⽇ ⽇
Unicode character number 12103 id est, X2F47
Picture: ⽇ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBD X87 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 189 135 in the decimal representation

2F48 12104 ⽈ ⽈
Unicode character number 12104 id est, X2F48
Picture: ⽈ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBD X88 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 189 136 in the decimal representation

65E5 26085 日 日
Unicode character number 26085 id est, X65E5
Picture: 日 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE6 X97 XA5 in the hexadecimal representation and
230 151 165 in the decimal representation

66F0 26352 曰 曰
Unicode character number 26352 id est, X66F0
Picture: 曰 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE6 X9B XB0 in the hexadecimal representation and
230 155 176 in the decimal representation

The same can be done with PHP program du.t; command

php du.t ⽇⽈日曰

provides the similar output, confirming, that characters ⽇,⽈,日,曰 are not confused with the software.

Wictionary

The English version of Wictionary , at the attempt to access ⽈ X2F48, actually redirects to 曰 X66F0 , silently assuming that ⽈ X2F48 and 曰 X66F0 have the same meaning.

Test for the good vision

Wictionary suggests the hint, for to distinguish 曰 ( 曰 X66F0) from 日 (日 X65E5) without computation.

Assume, somehow, one already knows, that the Unicode character nichi (two rectangular blocks, one on another) is either 曰 X66F0) or 日 X65E5.

Then, at some software, 日 (日 X65E5) appears a little bit slimmer than 曰 (曰 X66F0).
In addition, at some software, in the image of nichi (曰 X66F0), the central horizontal stick at right hand side does not touch the right hand side vertical stick. Is the character is shown with black on white, then, there is at least one white pixel between the central horizontal stick and the right hand side vertical stick. This white pixel can be seen at the strong zooming-in of the character. If the characters are enlarged to half-screen each, the difference can be seen without microscope.

This hint can be useful with computers that do not support PHP (that allow to run program du.t) or at computers that have no command line at all.

In Wictionary article about 曰 (曰 X66F0), this is expressed with sentence Not to be confused with 日, which is generally slimmer and taller, and has a middle stroke that often extends to both sides in non-regular script fonts.

Such a method could be useful in a Motor Vehicle Division for the visual test; the drivers with good vision are supposed to be able to distinguish the printed version of character 曰 from the printed version of character 日.

For the Human applications, it has sense to indicate the hexadecimal encoding after any character, qualified as nichi. Then, he resolving become easy and straightforward:
X65E5 is 日;
X66F0 is 曰
; this can be seen even without to zoom-in the character.

References

Keywords

du.t, Japan, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, Nichi, Nichiyoubi, PHP, Unicode, X2F47 ⽇, X2F48 ⽈, X65E5 日, X66F0 曰, 日本