⼣

⼣ as Evening

X2F23 ⼣ is Unicode character number 12067, JapanTa, KanjiLRadical.

In Japanese, character X2F23 ⼣ can be pronounced セキ or ゆう "yaki" or "yuu" and denote evening.

X2F23 ⼣ is easy to confuse with other two characters from set JapanTa; in particular, with KatakanaTa.

JapanTa

X2F23 ⼣ is element of JapanTa.

JapanTa is set of 3 Unicode characters:
X2F23 ⼣ , KanjiRadical
X30BF タ , KatakanaTa
X5915 夕 , KanjiLiberal

Characters of JapanTa look similar. Even a native Japanese speaker, watching at ⼣タ夕, is unlikely to answer:
Which of them is X2F23?
Which of them is X30BF?
Which of them is X5915?

For the printed character, the correct specification is

"X2F23 ⼣ or X30BF タ or X5915 夕"

Term JapanTa is defined to substitute this cumbersome construction.

However, characters JapanTa still have different semantics; for the analysis of Japanese texts, more narrow set is necessary. It is considered in the next section.

Vecher

⼣ is element of set Vecher.

Vecher is set of the following Unicode characters:

X2F23 ⼣ , KanjiRadical
X5915 夕 , KanjiLiberal

In such a way, Vecher is JapanTa with excluded KatakanaTa.

Word Vecher can be pronounced as Yuu (ゆう) and refer to meanings of characters ⼣, 夕: approximate equivalent of evening.

Notation Vecher is chosen in analogy with Russian word вечер, that has similar meaning(s).

Need in such a notation raises from the fault of representation of Japanese characters in computers. Up to year 2021, the default fonts cause confusions: characters JapanTa ( ⼣ タ 夕) look similar to each other.

Term vecher is defined to avoid the confusion.

Semantic

According to dictionaries, there is neither phonetic nor semantic difference between characters X2F23 ⼣ and X5915 夕.

For this reason, the most of descriptions of X5915 夕 (except the encoding properties) can be attributed also to X2F23 ⼣.

These descriptions are not repeated here.

Confusion

Characters X2F23 ⼣ and X2F23 ⼣ are confusive. While writing with macintosh, the writer does not know, is the character ⼣ or ⼣; will it be found with the search or not; will it be interpreted correctly by the typesetting system or not. In order to deal with this confusion, word vecher is suggested as substitute of any of ⼣, 夕. At the final setting of document, this word can be replaced to the kanji that corresponds to convenient Japanese language.

Such a trick allows to bypass the problem with poor implementation of Japanese characters in computers.

References

Keywords

Confusion, Hiragana, Japanese, JapanTa, Katakana, Kanji, KanjiConfudal, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, SomeU, Unicode, X2F23 ⼣ , X30BF タ , X5915 夕