Kuruma

Fig.1. Honda as example of Kuruma Fig.2. Board at ⾞⼭ Fig.3. 車両通行止

Kuruma is set of the 3 unicode characters:
KanjiRadical ⾞ X2F9E
KanjiLiberal 車 X8ECA
KanjiConfudal 車 XF902

Also, term Kuruma may refer to each of these three characters.

Also, term Kuruma may refer to sounds くるま and/or シャ, used in Japanese to denote any of these three characters at the acoustic transfer of information.

Also, term Kuruma may refer to an object denoted with these characters in Japanese language, id est, a car; for example, that shown in Fig.1.

Characters Kuruma can be used in personal names, for example, as part of name Kurumayama of the mount, see the board at Fig.2.

Confusion

Characters ⾞, 車, 車 look similar. Even a native Japanese speaker, looking at images of these characters, is unlikely to guess correctly:
Which of them is X2F9E?
Which of them is X8ECA?
Which of them is XF902?

However, the authomatic treatment of a text, in particular, the search or the substitute, treat these characters as different; this makes confusions. If the article is entitled ⾞, then, search for 車 may miss it.

Some characters just disappear at the authomatic treatment of a text (for example, with latex), again, without any waring, without any suggestion to replace some of unknown (for the software) characters to their equivalents, recognized by the software.

Some software, contrary, automatically replace character 車 to 車; again, without any warning. So, the errors appear at the proofreading of an article (for example, that about the confusion above), or at the attempts to analyze it and to use it in the future research.

In order to avoid the confusion, some programming is necessary. It is considered in the next section.

Encodig

The Utf8 encoding of the kuuruma characters can be calculated with PHP program ud.t; for the execution, file uni.t also should be loaded. Then, command

php ud.t X2F9E 8ECA F902

returns the following output:

K= 4 

X2F9E 12190 [[⾞]] ⾞
Unicode character number 12190 id est, [[X2F9E]]
Picture: [[⾞]] ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBE X9E in the hexadecimal representation and
226 190 158 in the decimal representation

8ECA 36554 [[車]] 車
Unicode character number 36554 id est, [[X8ECA]]
Picture: [[車]] ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE8 XBB X8A in the hexadecimal representation and
232 187 138 in the decimal representation

F902 63746 [[車]] 車
Unicode character number 63746 id est, [[XF902]]
Picture: [[車]] ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XEF XA4 X82 in the hexadecimal representation and
239 164 130 in the decimal representation

Graphic

A character Kuruma looks as plus "+" at the top, the rice field "ta" ⽥ at the center and another plus "+" at the top bottom.

Examples

Klara Sesemann in 車椅子

車両 vehicle

車検 vehicle inspection

車椅子 wheelchair

車両設計の基礎 , Vehicle design basics

お⾞でお越しのお客様へご案内, Information for customers arriving by car

乗車券, じょうしゃけん :

「乗車券を拝見できますか」「はい、どうぞ」 Will you show me your ticket? "Yes, of course."

乗車券を売っている窓口はどこですか。 Where is the ticket-selling window?

乗車券が見つからない。落としてしまったにちがいない。 I can't find my ticket. I must have lost it.

乗車券が見つからない。 I can not find my ticket.

この列車乗車券は３カ月有効だ。 This ticket is valid for three months.

References

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/車 車（くるま、シャ）は、輪の形をしており回転するもの。代表的なものとしては車輪、ほかには歯車、水車、風車などの例がある。車輪を取り付けて、荷物や人を運べるようにした道具、すなわちある種の車両のこと。平安時代の日本語では、単に「車」といえば牛車を指すものであった。現代の日本語では自動車（特に、乗用車）を指すことが多い。さらに狭義には人力車（俥）やタクシーのことをさす場合もある（車屋さん = 俥夫、車を呼ぶ、拾う。お車代など）。そのほか荷車、手押し車などを指す場合もある。

Keywords

Car, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiConfudal, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, PHP, ud.t, Unicode, ⾞ X2F9E, 車 X8ECA, 車 XF902,