⼊

⼊ X2F0A is Unicode character number 12042, KanjiRadical.

⼊ can be pronounced as "iru" or "iri" and may mean enter or insert;
⼊⼝ (入口, いりぐち, "iriguchi") may mean entry, entrance.

Confusions

Many confusions happen around ⼊.

One confusion, with strange car at the road near Tokyo, in front of the 高遠⼊口, is shown in the figure:

Confusions happen not only with the Google pictures of entrances to highways, also with characters, similar to ⼊.

Charater ⼊ X2F0A is easy to confuse with
KanjiLiberal X5165 入 , than has similar image, sound and meaning.

In addition, these two characters look similar to the following characters:
X2F08 ⼈
X4EBA 人
and also
X03BB λ
X2C96 Ⲗ
X30B9 ス
X1D6CC 𝛌
X1D706 𝜆
X1D740 𝝀
X1D77A 𝝺
X1D7B4 𝞴
and, perhaps, some other Unicode characters with even bigger numbers.
The particular view of these characters depends on the software.
At some of operational systems, with strong zooming-in, some of these characters can be visually distinguished one from other.
However, even a native Japanese speaker, looking, for example, at characters ⼊ and 入,
is unlikely to answer:
Which of them is KanjiRadical X2F0A?
Which of them is KanjiLiberal X5165?
In order to handle these confusions, some programming is necessary.

Encoding

The Utf8 encoding of ⼊ X2F0A and some similar characters can be revealed with PHP program du.t ; command

php du.t ⼈⼊人入スλⲖ

produces the following output:

The array has 20 bytes; here is its splitting:
e2 bc 88 e2 bc 8a e4 ba ba e5 85 a5 e3 82 b9 ce bb e2 b2 96
array(7) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "⼈"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "⼊"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "人"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "入"
  [4]=>
  string(3) "ス"
  [5]=>
  string(2) "λ"
  [6]=>
  string(3) "Ⲗ"
}

Unicode character number 12040 id est, X2F08
Picture: ⼈ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBC x88 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 136 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 12042 id est, X2F0A
Picture: ⼊ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBC x8A in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 138 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 20154 id est, X4EBA
Picture: 人 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE4 xBA xBA in the hexadecimal representation and
228 186 186 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 20837 id est, X5165
Picture: 入 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE5 x85 xA5 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 133 165 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 12473 id est, X30B9
Picture: ス ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE3 x82 xB9 in the hexadecimal representation and
227 130 185 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 00955 id est, X03BB
Picture: λ ; uses 2 bytes. These bytes are:
xCE xBB in the hexadecimal representation and
206 187 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 11414 id est, X2C96
Picture: Ⲗ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xB2 x96 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 178 150 in the decimal representation

There exist also similar Unicode characters with number larger than XFFFF.
These letters seem to be not necessary for description of Japanese.
Up to year 2021, characters with numbers larger than XFFFF are not considered in TORI.

Graphics

As in is mentioned above, picture of ⼊ looks similar to the Greek letter \( \lambda \).

Also, ⼊ looks as superposition of

character X2F08 ⼈ of character X4EBA 人

with small horizontal bar at the top:

⼈\( \!\!\!\!^{^{\!\mathrm -}}\)

With regular fonts, the bar is presented with one of few pixels, then this bar is barely seen

The same refers also to KanjiLiberal X5165 入.

Phonetic

Usually, ⼊ is pronounced as "iru" or "iri".

KanjiLiberal X5165 入 may have similar pronounciation.

Semantic

⼊ mau refer insertion of to an entry; especially in combination 入口 (iriguchi).

KanjiLiberal X5165 入 may have similar meaning .

Examples

⼊⼝, "iriguchi", entrance.

References

Keywords

du.t, Chinese, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, PHP, Unicode, Utf8, X2F0A ⼊, X5165 入, X2F08 ⼈, X4EBA 人, X03BB λ, X2C96 Ⲗ, X30B9 ス,