⼟

Drawing of characters ± ⼟ ⼠ 土 士

⼟ (X2F1F) is unicode character number 12063, KanjiRadical

Semantic

⼟ (X2F1F) can be interpreted as "Earth"

Wiktionary suggests several meanings:

earth; soil 這兒的土夠肥的。 / 这儿的土够肥的。 ― Zhèr de tǔ gòu féi de. ― The soil here is quite fertile.

clay

crude opium

dust

local; native; indigenous

Encoding

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 BC 9F	226 188 159	14859423	11100010 10111100 10011111
UTF-16BE	2F 1F	47 31	12063	00101111 00011111
UTF-16LE	1F 2F	31 47	7983	00011111 00101111
UTF-32BE	00 00 2F 1F	0 0 47 31	12063	00000000 00000000 00101111 00011111
UTF-32LE	1F 2F 00 00	31 47 0 0	523173888	00011111 00101111 00000000 00000000

Phonetic

In Japanese language, character ⼟ (X2F1F) can be pronounced as ト (to) or ド (do), dependently on the context.

Confusion

There are several unicode characters that have similar pictures. Their Utf8 encoding can be revealed with command

php du.t ±⼟⼠土士

However, file du.t should be loaded for the execution. The output is:

±⼟⼠土士
The array has 14 bytes; here is its splitting:
c2 b1 e2 bc 9f e2 bc a0 e5 9c 9f e5 a3 ab
array(5) {
  [0]=>
  string(2) "±"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "⼟"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "⼠"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "土"
  [4]=>
  string(3) "士"
}

Unicode character number 00177 id est, X00B1
Picture: ± ; uses 2 bytes. These bytes are:
XC2 XB1 in the hexadecimal representation and
194 177 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 12063 id est, X2F1F
Picture: ⼟ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBC X9F in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 159 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 12064 id est, X2F20
Picture: ⼠ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBC XA0 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 160 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 22303 id est, X571F
Picture: 土 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE5 X9C X9F in the hexadecimal representation and
229 156 159 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 22763 id est, X58EB
Picture: 士 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE5 XA3 XAB in the hexadecimal representation and
229 163 171 in the decimal representation

The KanjiRadical ⼟ (X2F1F) and the KanjiLiberal 土 (X571F) can be considered as synonyms; their meaning and their pdonounciation is similar.

As for character ± (X00B1) and the KanjiRadical ⼠ X2F20 and rhe KanjiLiberal 士 (X58EB), they have other meanings. (Althopugh the last two also can be considered as a pair of synonyms.)

Due to the graphical semihance, the characters mentioned may cause confusion. This confusion is recognized .

Even a Japanese native speaker, looking at characters ± ⼟ 土 ⼠ 士
cannot guess,
which of them is X00B1,
which of them is X2F1F,
which of them is X571F,
which of them is X2F20 and
which of them is X58EB.

The KanjiRadical ⼟ (X2F1F) and the KanjiLiberal 土 (X571F) can be considered as synonyms; their meaning and their pdonounciation is similar.

As for character ± (X00B1) and the KanjiRadical ⼠ X2F20 and rhe KanjiLiberal 士 (X58EB), they have other meanings, although the last two also can be considered as a pair of synonyms.

References

Keywords

du.t, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, Unicode, X00B1, X2F1F, X2F20, X571F, X58EB, X7537,

±, ⼟, ⼠, 土, 士, 男