子

 Drawing X2F26 ⼦ and/or X5B50 子

X5B50 子 is Unicode character number 23376, KanjiLiberal.

X5B50 子 appears as symbol number 760 in the list of 2136 recommended Japanese kanjis .

X5B50 子 can be pronounced as "ko" and denote "child", baby.

X5B50 子 is easy to confuse with character X2F26 ⼦, KanjiRadical: it has similar pictures, similar pronunciations and similar meanings.

Semantic

X2F26 ⼦ or X5B50 子

In Chinese and Japanese languages, character X5B50 子, has sense "child", "baby".

Generally, X5B50 子 may denote any Human(s) of age under 17 years.

Character X2F26 ⼦ has similar meaning.

Character X5B50 子 seems to be more usual than
character X2F26 ⼦

Phonetic

Shiroyamako

In Japanese language, character X5B50 子 is pronounced as "ko", こ.

The same sound "ko" can be used to denote character X2F26 ⼦.

Sound "ko" has also other meanings. It may indicate a lake, natural or artificial water reservoir. In this case, sound "ko" refers to another kanji; for example, X6E56 湖 (湖).

Jisho

Kimtaro, jisho

Jisho suggests the following description:

子 3 strokes

Radical: child, seed 子

Parts: 子

child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac

Kun: こ、 -こ、 ね

On: シ、 ス、 ツ

Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1 JLPT level N5

72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus

中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron

精子 【セイシ】 sperm

主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name

金子 【キンス】 money, funds

恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce

対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes

七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kun reading compounds

子 【こ】 child, young (animal), young woman, young geisha, offshoot, interest, new shares, player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.), bird egg, -er (often of young women)

子 【こう】 child, interest

根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source

江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 true Tokyoite, Edoite, person born and raised in Edo

子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar

子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)

庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)

甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

Readings

Japanese names: い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ

Nihongomaster

Nihongomaster

Nihongomaster suggests the following description:

Definition of 子 child

sign of the rat 11PM-1AM

first sign of Chinese zodiac

Readings On'Yomi (音読み) シ ス ツ

Kun'yomi (訓読み) こ -こ ね

Popular Words With This Kanji

子, 児, こ child, young (animal), young woman, young geisha, offshoot, interest, new shares, bird egg, (after a noun or -masu stem) -er (often of young women)

子供, 子ども, 小供, こども child, children

子供, 子ども, 小供, こども child, children

女子, じょし, おなご, おみなご woman, girl

男子, だんし youth, young man

原子力, げんしりょく atomic energy, nuclear power

様子, 容子, ようす state, state of affairs, situation, circumstances, appearance, look, aspect, sign, indication

様子, 容子, ようす state, state of affairs, situation, circumstances, appearance, look, aspect, sign, indication

息子, 息, むすこ, そく son, penis

金子, きんす money, funds

⼦ and 子

The two characters X2F26 ⼦ and X5B50 子 have similar pictures, similar pronunciation and similar meaning. The dictionaries mentioned above ignore this confusion, making wrong and dangerous impression of simplicity.

In order to distinguish the two characters, some programming is required. The Utf8 encoding of these two characters can be revealed by PHP program du.t activated with command

php du.t ⼦子

The optput 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

Confusion

JanjiRadical X2F26 ⼦ and
KanjiLiberal X5B50 子 look similar.
This causes confusions. There are alerts about this congusion .

Usually, a Human, even the native Japanese speaker, looking at 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.

Some software programmers try to resolve such confusions, making authomatical substitutes, redirects from some Unicode characters (and/or even sequences) to another. Usually, such a "correction" does not generate any alert; no any warning appear.

As the result, the content of an article with any non-ascii name, at the backing and recovering, may happen to be lost, replaced to article with the "correct" spelling of the name, containing only the "redirect".

Yet, no such a "conspyration" substitution is detected namely for characters ⼦ and 子. However, such an "updates" may appear in future. For this reason, the four similar articles X2F26, X5B50, ⼦, 子 are loaded in TORI.

References

Keywords

Baby, Child, Chinese, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, PHP, SomeU, Utf8table, UtfH, X2F26 ⼦, X5B50 子