⿂

Carp as sakana

Windfish

⿂, X2FC2 is Unicode character number 12226, KanjiRadical.

In Japanese, ⿂ can be pronounced as さかな, sakana, denoting a generic fish.

⿂ is easy to confuse with 魚.

⿂ and 魚

KanjiRadical ⿂, X2FC2 is easy to confuse with
KanjiLiberal 魚, X9B5A ; their images look very similar.
In order to distinguish these characters, some programming is necessary.

The Utf8 encoding of ⿂ can be revealed with PHP program du.t;

php du.t ⿂

does

⿂魚
The array has 6 bytes; here is its splitting:
e2 bf 82 e9 ad 9a
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "⿂"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "魚"
}

Unicode character number 12226 id est, X2FC2
Picture: ⿂ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBF X82 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 191 130 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 39770 id est, X9B5A
Picture: 魚 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE9 XAD X9A in the hexadecimal representation and
233 173 154 in the decimal representation

Graphics

⿂ looks as overlap of

katakana ク (ク X30AF) at the top

and

KanjiRadical ⽥ X2F65 or KanjiLiberal 田 Х7530

and

four sticks at the bottom, for example, one slash / (X002F) and three backslashes \ (X005C)

Sakana

KanjiRadical X2FC2, ⿂ and
KanjiLiberal X9B5A, 魚 have similar graphics, similar pronunciation and similar meaning.

Even for a native Japanese speaker, looking at characters ⿂, 魚, is difficult to answer:
Which if them is KanjiRadical X2FC2?
Which if them is KanjiLiberal X9B5A?

For this reason, these two characters are combnined in the Class of equivalence Sakana.

Them Sakana may refer:
to KanjiRadical X2FC2, ⿂,
to KanjiLiberal X9B5A, 魚,
to the set of these two kanjis,
to sound さかな (common for these two characters) and
to any fish from an ocean, sea, lake, river, swamp or aquarium.

Keywords

du.t, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, PHP, Sakana, Unicode, X2FC2 ⿂, X9B5A 魚,