XF981

XF981 is unicode character number 63873, 女 (& # 6 3 8 7 3;).

The three characters ⼥,女,女 look very similar. In addition, the Mediawiki engine, at least with the default setting, confuse the last two. For this reason, articles X2F25, X5973, XF981 are loaded; names of these articles are easy to distinguish both by Humans and by the software.

Drawing of XF981

Encoding of 女

In Utf8 encoding, Character XF981 (女) is encoded with 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xEF xA6 x81 in the hexadecimal representation and
239 166 129 in the decimal representation.

In HTML, character 女 can be generated as follows:
& # X F 9 8 1 ;
However, for the activation, the spaces should be removed from the formula above.

Phonetic

In Japanese, XF981 (女) can be pronounced as おんな (onna).

Semantic

⼥ or 女 or 女

Both in Chinese and Japanese languages, character XF981 has meaning "woman", Human female.

Synonyms: ⼥,女,女

Characters
X2F25 ⼥ (⼥ , & # 1 2 0 6 9 ;)
X5973 女 (女 , & # 2 2 8 9 9 ;)
XF981 女 (女 , & # 6 3 8 7 3 ;)
are synonyms, and they are easy to confuse. ..

Similar confusion takes place with Cyrillic characters; for example,
A (& # 0 0 6 5 ;) and
А (& # 1 0 4 0 ;)
at some graphical interfaces look very similar.

The confusion of ⼥,女,女 can be shown with the program below:

<?php 
function unichr($dec) {
  if ($dec < 128) {
    $utf = chr($dec);
  } else if ($dec < 2048) {
    $utf = chr(192 + (($dec - ($dec % 64)) / 64));
    $utf .= chr(128 + ($dec % 64));
  } else {
    $utf = chr(224 + (($dec - ($dec % 4096)) / 4096));
    $utf .= chr(128 + ((($dec % 4096) - ($dec % 64)) / 64));
    $utf .= chr(128 + ($dec % 64));
  }
  return $utf;
} 

function mb_str_split($str) {
   // split multibyte string in characters
   // at all positions except the start: ^
   // and the end: $
   $pattern = '/(?<!^)(?!$)/u';
   return preg_split($pattern,$str);
}

function uniord($a) 
{
  $M=strlen($a);
  $p=ord($a[0]);                    if($M==1) return $p;
  $p-=194;  $p*=64; $p+=ord($a[1]); if($M==2) return $p;
  $p-=2050; $p*=64; $p+=ord($a[2]);           return $p;
}

$a=unichr(0x2f25);
echo "$a\n";
$a.=unichr(0x5973);
echo "$a\n";
$a.=unichr(0xF981);
echo "$a\n";

//$a='⼤,大;⼩,小'; # two pairs of different unicode characters separated with "," and ";"
//$a='⼥,女;AАᎪᗅＡ'; # different unicode characters separated with "," and ";"
//$a='⼥,女'; # pair of different unicode characters separated with coma

$N=strlen($a);
echo "The array has $N bytes; here is its splitting:\n";

for($n=0;$n<$N;$n++)
{
printf("%02x ",ord($a[$n]) );
}
echo "\n";

$b = mb_str_split($a);

var_dump($b);
$M=count($b);

#mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");

for($m=0;$m<$M;$m++)
{
printf("\n");
$c=$b[$m];
$u=uniord($c);
printf("Unicode character number %05d id est, x%04X\n",$u,$u);
$d=strlen($c);
echo "Picture: $c uses $d bytes. These bytes are:\n";
for($n=0;$n<$d;$n++) printf("x%2X ",ord($c[$n]));
printf("in the hexadecimal representation and\n");
for($n=0;$n<$d;$n++) printf("%3d ",ord($c[$n]));
printf("in the decimal representation\n");
}
?>

This program uses portable PHP functions unichr.t, mb_str_split.t and uniord.t. The output is

⼥
⼥女
⼥女女
The array has 9 bytes; here is its splitting:
e2 bc a5 e5 a5 b3 ef a6 81 
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "⼥"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "女"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "女"
}

Unicode character number 12069 id est, x2F25
Picture: ⼥ uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBC xA5 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 165 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 22899 id est, x5973
Picture: 女 uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE5 xA5 xB3 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 165 179 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 63873 id est, xF981
Picture: 女 uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xEF xA6 x81 in the hexadecimal representation and
239 166 129 in the decimal representation

X2F25, X5973, XF981

Not only Humans, but also the default mediawiki software confuse X5973 and XF981, redirecting from one to another. The same refers to various text editors, they confuse these characters. Such a case can be expressed with sentence: "If something is wrong, Cherchez la ⼥" .

Characters
X2F25, (⼥ , & # x 2 f 2 5 ;) ,
X5973 (女 , & # x 5 9 7 3 ;) and
XF981 (女 , & # x F 9 8 1 ;)
are easy to confuse. All the three appear with pictures similar to ⼥. For this reason, the content is repeated at articles X2F25, X5973, XF981. These names are easy to distinguish both by Humans and by the software.

Confusions

In order to avoid confusion, the hexadecimal name XF981 should be used instead of 女 in all places, where the the difference between X2F25 (⼥), X5973 (女), XF981 (女) may be important. (For example, the link to article about X5973 may send to article about XF981, or vice versa, or the ink may just fail, as some software confuse X5973 and XF981; the article can be just lost, replaced to "redirect" to itself. In order to avoid such lost (replacement to fake "redirecr", descriptions of the 3 versions of kanji Onna are repeated in articles X2F25, X5973, XF981.

Keywords

Chinese, Confusion, Female, Japanese, Onna, Utf8, Utf8table, UtfH, Woman

X5973, XF981, XF981, ⼥, 女