X2F26

X2F26 (⼦) is Unicode character number 12070.

X2F26 (⼦) is interpreted as Kanji radical in order to distinguish it from X5B50 (子) that is interpreted as Kanji compound or Kanji liberal.

Drawing of X2F26 and X5B50

Encoding

In Utf8, character X2F26 (⼦) is encoded with 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBC xA6 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 166 in the decimal representation

In HTML, this character can be generated with
& # X 2 F 2 6 ; and also with
& # 1 2 0 7 0 ;
For activation, the spaces should be removed from the two lines above; then, each of them generates the same character X2F26 (⼦ ⼦).

Encoding of X2F26 and that of the similar character X5B50 can be revealed with the PHP program below:

<?php 
function unichr($dec) {
  if ($dec < 128) {
    $utf = chr($dec);
  } else if ($dec < 2048) {
    $utf = chr(192 + (($dec - ($dec % 64)) / 64));
    $utf .= chr(128 + ($dec % 64));
  } else {
    $utf = chr(224 + (($dec - ($dec % 4096)) / 4096));
    $utf .= chr(128 + ((($dec % 4096) - ($dec % 64)) / 64));
    $utf .= chr(128 + ($dec % 64));
  }
  return $utf;
} 

function mb_str_split($str) {
   // split multibyte string in characters
   // at all positions except the start: ^
   // and the end: $
   $pattern = '/(?<!^)(?!$)/u';
   return preg_split($pattern,$str);
}

function uniord($a) 
{
  $M=strlen($a);
  $p=ord($a[0]);                    if($M==1) return $p;
  $p-=194;  $p*=64; $p+=ord($a[1]); if($M==2) return $p;
  $p-=2050; $p*=64; $p+=ord($a[2]);           return $p;
}

//$a=unichr(0x2f25);
//$a.=unichr(0x5973);
//$a.=unichr(0xF981);

$a="⼦子";
echo "$a\n";
$N=strlen($a);
echo "The array has $N bytes; here is its splitting:\n";

for($n=0;$n<$N;$n++)
{
printf("%02x ",ord($a[$n]) );
}
echo "\n";

$b = mb_str_split($a);

var_dump($b);
$M=count($b);

#mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");

for($m=0;$m<$M;$m++)
{
printf("\n");
$c=$b[$m];
$u=uniord($c);
printf("Unicode character number %05d id est, [[X%04X]]\n",$u,$u);
$d=strlen($c);
echo "Picture: [[$c]] ; uses $d bytes. These bytes are:\n";
for($n=0;$n<$d;$n++) printf("x%2X ",ord($c[$n]));
printf("in the hexadecimal representation and\n");
for($n=0;$n<$d;$n++) printf("%3d ",ord($c[$n]));
printf("in the decimal representation\n");
}
?>

This program uses the portable PHP functions unichr.t, mb_str_split.t, uniord.t.

The ouptput is

⼦子
The array has 6 bytes; here is its splitting:
e2 bc a6 e5 ad 90 
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "⼦"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "子"
}

Unicode character number 12070 id est, [[X2F26]]
Picture: [[⼦]] ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBC xA6 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 166 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 23376 id est, [[X5B50]]
Picture: [[子]] ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE5 xAD x90 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 173 144 in the decimal representation

Semantic

X2F26 (⼦) or X5B50 (子)

In Chinese and Japanese languages, Character X2F26 (⼦) has sense "child", "baby", Human of age under 17 years.

The similar meaning is related also with character X5B50 (子).

Phonetic

In Japanese language, character X2F26 (⼦) is pronounced as "ko", こ. (The same as character X5B50 (子, 子))

The similar pronunciation is related also with character X5B50 (子).

This sound has also other meanings.
It may indicate a lake, natural or artificial water reservoir.

Confusion

Characters ⼦ (X2F26), 子 X5B50 look similar. This may cause confusions. There are alerts about this confusion .

Usually, a Human, even the native Japanese speaker, looking at characters ⼦ 子, cannot guess, which of them is X2F26 and which is X5B50. For citing, the alphanumerical names X2F26 and X5B50 seem to be better, than ⼦ and 子. For this reason, four similar articles X2F26, X5B50, ⼦, 子 are loaded.

Keywords

Baby, Child, Chinese, Japanese, Kanji, PHP, SomeU, Utf8table, UtfH, X2f26, X5B50,