JapanTa

JapanTa is set of the three Unicode characters below:

X2F23 ⼣ , KanjiRadical

X30BF タ , KatakanaTa

X5915 夕 , KanjiLiberal

These characters allow confusion. Their identification and interpretation depend on the context and, perhaps, an additional information the reader may have.

Graphic

At Linux, the JapanTa characters look so:

At Macintosh, these characters look so:

At your computer, they look in this way: 夕⼣タ

Confusion

Characters 夕 ⼣ タ look similar. Even a native Japanese speaker, watching them, is unlikely to answer:
Which of them is X2F23?
Which of them is X30BF?
Which of them is X5915?

For the printed letter, the correct specification is

"X2F23 ⼣ or X30BF タ or X5915 夕"

Term JapanTa is defined above to substitute this cumbersome construction.

However, if the character appears in a file, at some website, its origin can be revealed, for example, with the PHP program du.t, that calculates the Utf8 encoding of the input string. Example:

php du.t 夕⼣タ

returns the decimal number and the hexadecimal number and the Utf8 encoding of each of the 3 characters.

Even after the identification, the Phonetic and semantic may depend on the context. So, the three cases below are considered.

KanjiRadical

X2F23 ⼣ is unicode

It appears first in the table of the Unicode characters.

KatakanaTa

Case of X30BF タ seems to be simplest:

JapanTa is just KatakanaTa, it represents sound "ta" and seems to have no other meaning.

KanjiLiberal

References

Keywords

Confusion, Hiragana, Japanese, JapanTa, Katakana, Kanji, KanjiConfudal, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, SomeU, Unicode, X2F23 ⼣ X30BF タ X5915 夕 夕 ⼣ タ