金

⾦, 金 or 金: \(4\!\times\!10^6\) $

⾦, 金 or 金: gold, jewelry

⾦, 金 or 金: drawing

金, X91D1 is Unicode character number 37329, KanjiLiberal.

In Japanese, 金 may denote money or Au.
It can be pronounced as "kane" or "kin".

The reference to Unicode character number 63754, id est, 金 (XF90A), redirects here.
Usually, a software confuses unicode characters 37329 and 63754; the mediawiki is not an exception.

Encoding of ⾦,金 and 金

KanjiLiberal 金, X91D1 has synonyms, that have similar meaning and similar sounds. These synonyms are considered in this section.

Unicode characters
⾦ (X2FA6),
金 (X91D1) and
金 (XF90A)
have similar graphical representation.

Some of these characters are difficult to type with the conventional keyboards.
Some programming is necessary to avoid confusions.
The PHP program gold.t below reveals difference between these three characters.
File uni.t also should be loaded for the execution.

<?php
include "uni.t";

$a =unichr(0x2fa6); //echo "$a\n";
$a.=unichr(0x91d1); //echo "$a\n";
$a.=unichr(0xf90a); echo "$a\n";

$N=strlen($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);
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");
}
?>

File uni.t also should be loaded in order to execute command
php gold.t

The output is:

⾦金金
The array has 9 bytes; here is its splitting:
e2 be a6 e9 87 91 ef a4 8a
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "⾦"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "金"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "金"
}

Unicode character number 12198 id est, x2FA6
Picture: ⾦ uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBE xA6 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 190 166 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 37329 id est, x91D1
Picture: 金 uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE9 x87 x91 in the hexadecimal representation and
233 135 145 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 63754 id est, xF90A
Picture: 金 uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xEF xA4 x8A in the hexadecimal representation and
239 164 138 in the decimal representation

Semantic

In Chinese and in Japanese languages, kanji 金 (X91D1) may mean "money" or "gold", Au.

KanjiRadical ⾦ (X2FA6) have similar meaning.

Phonetic

In Japanese, kanji 金 (X91D1) can be pronounced as
かね (kane), if it means "money" (Fig.1), and
キン (kin), if it means Au (Fig.2).

KanjiRadical ⾦ (X2FA6) have similar pronunciation.

Graphic

The graphical representation 金 of character X91D1 looks as overlapping of other unicode characters:
picture 㐃 of character X3403 at the top and
picture ⽴ of character X2F74 at the bottom.

Confusion

Characters
⾦ (X2FA6)
金 (X91D1) and
金 (XF90A)
are easy fo confuse.

This confusion is recognized .

Even some software (including mediawiki) confuses characters XF91D1 and XF90A. While this common bug is not corrected, in order to avoid confusions, it may have sense to use notations X2FA6, X91D1 and XF90A instead of ⾦, 金 and 金.

Similar confusion occurs with characters X2F25, X5973 and XF981, that denote woman.
In such a way, gold, money and women cause confusions. If some strange effects is observed with filenames and databases ("..This cannot be!!.."), Cherchez la femme , id est, check if characters X2FA6, X91D1, XF90A, X2F25, X5973 or XF981 appear in some code, or in the working files, or in the intermediate results: May be, one of them is mistakenly interpreted in different way by various modules, or, contrary, different characters are mistakenly treated in the same way. The Unicode system has many characters, that are easy to confuse .
Often, the linguists-professionals do not know about these confusions, or do not care about encoding of characters, or intentionally hide such a source of errors from from pupils, who learn the kanji .

In addition, character 金 (X91D1) looks similar to Unicode symbol 余 (X4F59); the difference is in orientation of lateral diagonal bars at the bottom right and at the bottom left and absence of the bottom horizontal bar.

References

Keywords

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