東
南 (X5317) is unicode character number 21271, KanjiLiberal.
It can be pronounced as "higashi" and mean "East".
北, 北, 南, 東, 西
Some of characters, related with directions, are tricky; the software may confuse them.
In particular, the first character in the title of the section may be replaced to the second one
without any warning.
In order to avoid confusions, some programming is necessary.
Encoding of 東 and related characters can be revealed with PHP program ud.t
In order to execute it, file uni.t also should be loaded; then, command
php ud.t F963 5317 5357 6771 897F
gives the following output:
K= 6
F963 63843 北 北
Unicode character number 63843 id est, XF963
Picture: 北 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XEF XA5 XA3 in the hexadecimal representation and
239 165 163 in the decimal representation
5317 21271 北 北
Unicode character number 21271 id est, X5317
Picture: 北 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE5 X8C X97 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 140 151 in the decimal representation
5357 21335 南 南
Unicode character number 21335 id est, X5357
Picture: 南 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE5 X8D X97 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 141 151 in the decimal representation
6771 26481 東 東
Unicode character number 26481 id est, X6771
Picture: 東 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE6 X9D XB1 in the hexadecimal representation and
230 157 177 in the decimal representation
897F 35199 西 西
Unicode character number 35199 id est, X897F
Picture: 西 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE8 XA5 XBF in the hexadecimal representation and
232 165 191 in the decimal representation
Semantic
東 may mean "East". The names of the intermediate directions are shown in the table below:
| 北西 | 北北西 | 北 | 北北東 | 北東 |
| 西北西 | \( ^\rule{0pt}{8pt} \) | 東北東 | ||
| 西 |  |
東 | ||
| 西南西 | \( _\rule{0pt}{8pt} \) | 東南東 | ||
| 南西 | 南南西 | 南 | 南南東 | 南東 |
Also, 東 appears as part of name of city 東京.
Phonetic
東 can be pronounced as "higashi"
東京 can be pronounced as "とうきょう", "toukjou".
In most of European languages, it is tranlslated as Tokyo, and, as result, is pronounced with horrible accent, that helps Japanese people to identify the foreigners.
References
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/東
Keywords
Japanese,
Kanji,
KanjiLiberal,
Unicode,
Utf8,
X5317 北,
X5357 南,
X6771 東,
X897F 西,
XF963 北,