Sakana

Sakana as a fish Sakana as Sashimi

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;

php du.t ⿂魚

does

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

Keywoirds

Fish, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, Sakana, Unicode, X2FC2 ⿂, X9B5A 魚,,,