⼥

⼥ (X2F25) is name of the Unicode character 12069.

Utf8 character number 12069 (X2F25) is shown by your browser as ⼥, (⼥, ⼥).

HTML input

Character number 12069 can be generated in html with the Ascii input in any of the two follo]ing ways:
⼥   & # 1 2 0 6 9 ; in the decimal representation or
⼥   & # x 2 F 2 5 ; in the hexadecimal representation;
both the scripts above generate the same Unicode character number 12069.

Encoding

In Utf8, character ⼥ (⼥, (& # 1 2 0 6 9 ;)) is encoded with 3 bytes. These bytes are
xE2 xBC xA5 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 165 in the decimal representation.

Phonetic

in Japanese, ⼥ may be pronounced おんな (onna) .

However, the pronunciation has many meanings, and several different kanji are used to adjust the case.

Semantic

⼥ or 女 or 女

Both in Chines and in Japanese , character ⼥ may mean a woman, human female.

Synonyms: 女 and 女

Character ⼥ (⼥ , & # 1 2 0 6 9 ;) looks similar to
character 女 (女 , & # 2 2 8 9 9 ;) and has similar meaning, and similar to
character 女 (女 , & # 6 3 8 7 3 ;) , that also has similar meaning .

Character 女 (& # 6 3 8 7 3 ;) appears as recommended Kanji number 952 in the Table jōyō (2021) .

Existence of close synonyms is typical for the Unicode characters. Often, characters with similar pictures and similar meaning appear in Unicode; for example, A (A, & # 0 0 6 5 ;), А (А, & # 1 0 4 0 ;), Ꭺ (Ꭺ, & # 5 0 3 4 ;), ᗅ (Ａ & # 6 5 3 1 3;)
at some graphical interfaces look very similar.

These similarities (and the encoding of the characters mentioned) 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;
}

$a=unichr(0x2f25);
echo "$a\n";
$a.=unichr(0x5973);
echo "$a\n";
$a.=unichr(0xF981);
echo "$a\n";

//$a='⼤,大;⼩,小'; # two pairs of different unicode characters separated with "," and ";"
//$a='⼥,女;AАᎪᗅＡ'; # different unicode characters separated with "," and ";"
//$a='⼥,女'; # pair of different unicode characters separated with coma

$N=strlen($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 portable PHP functions unichr.t, mb_str_split.t and uniord.t. The output is

⼥
⼥女
⼥女女
The array has 9 bytes; here is its splitting:
e2 bc a5 e5 a5 b3 ef a6 81 
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "⼥"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "女"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "女"
}

Unicode character number 12069 id est, x2F25
Picture: ⼥ uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBC xA5 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 165 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 22899 id est, x5973
Picture: 女 uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE5 xA5 xB3 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 165 179 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 63873 id est, xF981
Picture: 女 uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xEF xA6 x81 in the hexadecimal representation and
239 166 129 in the decimal representation

Confusions

Characters
X2F25, (⼥ , & # x 2 f 2 5 ;) ,
X5973 (女 , & # x 5 9 7 3 ;) and
XF981 (女 , & # x F 9 8 1 ;)
are easy to confuse. All the three appear with pictures similar to ⼥.

Not only Humans, but also the default mediawiki software confuse X5973 and XF981, redirecting from one to another. The same refers to various text editors, they confuse these characters. Such a case can be expressed with sentence: "If something is wrong, Cherchez la ⼥" .

For this reason, the names of articles should not include character X5973 nor XF981; at least until these bugs in the software will be corrected, and computers, where the old (not corrected for this bug) software is installed, become unusable. This may take from 10 to 100 years.

There are many confusible characters in Unicode . For this reason, for serious documents, the Ascii characters should be preferred.

Keywords

Chinese, Female, Japanese, Kanji, Onna, PHP, SomeU, SomeUtf8, Unicode, Utf8, UtfH, Utf8table, Woman, X2F25, X5973, XF981

⼥, 女