WALK TWO

WALK TWO is one of the ascii names for the Unicode character X2ECE ⻎ .

X2ECE ⻎ is Unicode character number 11982, KanjiRadical, WalkU.
⻎ uses 3 bytes: %e2%bb%8e ; 226 187 142 in the decimal representation.

WALK TWO may refer to Japanese language.
Character ⻎ can be pronounced Shinnyou, しんにょう and refer to street, to walk, to proceed.

Character ⻎ belongs to WalkU and is easy to confuse with other characters of this set.

The interpretation here is based on the descriptions by dictionaries and other sites cited.

WALK TWO

WalkU

WALK TWO (X2ECE ⻎) is element of WalkU.

WalkU is set of the following five Unicode characters:

X2ECC ⻌ , KanjiRadical, Walk0, SIMPLIFIED WALK

X2ECD ⻍ , KanjiRadical, Walk1, WALK ONE

X2ECE ⻎ , KanjiRadical, Walk2, WALK TWO

X8FB6 辶 , KanjiLiberal, Walk3

XFA66 辶 , KanjiConfudal, Walk4

The numeration (Walk0,Walk1,Walk2,Walk3,Walk4) is based on the descriptions of two of these characters by The Unicode Utilities. In word WalkU, the last letter can be interpreted as integer parameter, that can take values 0,1,2,3 or 4.

Characters of WalkU have similar pictures, similar pronunciation (Shinnyou, しんにょう) and similar meaning (walk, advance, go on, proceed).

Graphics

View of character WALK TWO depends on the default font of the operational system.

Here are comparisons of view of character WALK TWO with that of other WalkU (⻌,⻍,⻎,辶,辶) at the default fonts of various computers:

at Macintosh

at Linux

⻌,⻍,⻎,辶,辶 at your computer

In century 21, the computer support of characters of Japanese is underdeveloped.
Up to year 2021, there is no united standard for the default font, that would allow each character to look the same at various computers, but different from other characters.
Apparently, the opposite cases take place: the character looks different with the default font of different operational systems, but similar to other characters at the same computer. This causes confuses.

Confusion

Several sites, including Dictionary, interpret characters of WalkU as the same Kanji, which view depends "on the computer font used" :

".. Depending on the computer font used, this character may appear be to either ⻍, ⻎ or ⻌"

Some professionals, even native Japanese speakers, accept such an interpretation.

However, this interpretation seems to be just wrong.

The characters mentioned (⻍, ⻎, ⻌) have unicode numbers X2ECD, X2ECE and X2ECC, respectively. WALK TWO is second of them.

Commands that handle the fonts, do not affect the Unicode number of the character; do not convert one of characters ⻍, ⻎ or ⻌ to another .

For computers, elements of WalkU are different characters. Attempts to treat them as the same lead to confusions.
One tries to search for the Kanji, and the search engine cannot find the site because that kanji is represented there with different character.
One makes the replacement through the text, and, again, some Kanjis are not found and not replaced.

Such a confusion may lead to serious errors, including losses of documents, if one assumes, that the Kanji is always represented with the same character.

In particular, this applies to WALK TWO; X2ECE ⻎ is highly concussive character. Characters X2ECC ⻌ , X2ECD ⻍ , X2ECE ⻎ , X8FB6 辶 , XFA66 辶 look similar.

Even a native Japanese speaker, watching characters ⻌,⻍,⻎,辶,辶, is unlikely to answer:
Which of them is X2ECC?
Which of them is X2ECD?
Which of them is X2ECE?
Which of them is X8FB6?
Which of them is XFA66?

In such a case, the correct specification of the character is

"X2ECC ⻌ or X2ECD ⻍ or X2ECE ⻎ or X8FB6 辶 or XFA66 辶"

Term WalkU is defined to substitute this (long and complicated) construction with the single word.

Usually, the textbooks of Japanese, as well as the teachers and the educational sites, just ignore the confusion, considering it not important.
Such an ignorance leads to loss of texts, if it is stored with one "font" and saved/backuped/recovered with another "font".

Some programmers know about this problem; the attempts to patch the system are observed. Characters from set KanjiConfudal are silently, without any warning, replaced to their analogies from set KanjiLiberal. However, such a patch adds to the confusion, delays the revealing of the mistakes.

The problem is so grave, that some authors intentionally avoid non-ascii characters, using the Romanji transliterations.

Especially grave it is for database handling engines, such as mediawiki, where every word can be interpreted as a filename and the implicit search service is incorporated.

One of solutions would be just avoiding kanjis, using their ascii names instead:

Character ⻌ is called SIMPLIFIED WALK

Character ⻍ is called "WALK ONE"

Character ⻎ is called "WALK TWO"

and so on.

However, the Japanese text, after such a transform, becomes too long and difficult to read. The compromise is to replace only those characters, that are difficult to identify. Such a compromise is Tarja.

Tarja

Tarja is set of notations for Japanese characters, characterized in that, that the characters, that are difficult to identify from their images at the standard default fonts, are replaced with their Romanji (Ascii) and/or Hiragana analogies.

Character WALK TWO (X2ECE ⻎) can be translated into Tarja in the following ways:

1. しんにょう

2. Shinnyou

3. WalkU

4. Walk2 or X2ECE (if need to distinguish it from other WalkU characters).

Terms WALK TWO or Walk two also could be used, but they are too long to serve as identifiable replacements.

Use

Character WALK TWO by itself is not popular.
But image of WALK TWO (or that of another WalkU character) is used as component of images of more popular kanjis. Here are few examples:

X901A 通 通 : Traffic, pass through, avenue, commute, counter for letters, notes, documents

X9023 連 連 : Take along, lead, join, connect, party, gang, clique

X9032 進 進 : continue, move on, Advance, proceed, progress, promote

X9053 道 道 : Road-way, street, district, journey, course, moral, teachings

X9078 選 選 : Elect, select, choose, prefer

The characters above are complicated; they are enlarged in order to allow the visual recognition.
(Over-vice, all of them would look similar to character X2592 ▒.)

Gallery

For the descriptions, suggested in dictionaries, the relevant pictures had been searched. Some results are shown below.

References

Keywords

Confusion, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiConfudal, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, Unicode, Walk, Walk0 "SIMPLIFIED WALK" , Walk1 "WALK ONE" , Walk2 "WALK TWO" , Walk3, Walk4, WalkU, Shinnyou, X2ECC ⻌ , X2ECD ⻍ , X2ECE ⻎ , X8FB6 辶 , XFA66 辶 , しんにょう