Sakana

Sakana as a fish Sakana as a dish

Sakana refers to the set of the following unicode characters:

KanjiRadical ⿂, X2FC2 and
KanjiLiberal 魚, X9B5A .

Also, term Sakana may refer to sound さかな. This pronunciation refers to each of these characters.

In addition, term Sacana may refer to an object, denoted with this sound, id est, any fish; for example, that shown in Fig.1.

Encoding

The sakana characters look similar to each other.

KanjiRadical ⿂, X2FC2 is easy to confuse with
KanjiLiberal 魚, X9B5A .

In order to distinguish these characters, some programming is necessary.

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

php du.t ⿂魚

produces the following output:

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

Relation with Tori

In table KanjiRadical, characters
⿂ X2FC2 (Sakana, fish) and
⿃ X2FC3 (Tori, bird) are neighbors. This has deep meaning:

Some ⿂ are a little bit ⿃.

Some ⿃ are a little bit ⿂.

Original Japanese version:

トビウオ　は　えすこし　⿃　です。

ペンギン　は　えすこし　⿂　です。

Art

Sakana (fish) as a food (dish) is mentioned in the poem:

I am not so good to walk a walk
And I'm not good to talk a talk,
I am not good to ride a ride,
I am not good to kite a kite,
I am not good to fish a fish,
Nor (even worse) to cook a dish;
But if you have a drink to drink,
Let's drink together, so I think!

References

Keywords

Confusion Devchonka philosophy, Fish, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, Sakana, Unicode, X2FC2 ⿂, X9B5A 魚