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X2ECF ⻏ is Unicode character number 11983, KanjiRadical, Oozato, JapanBeta.

X2ECF ⻏ can be pronounced as Oozato and may mean village, county, city .

Image ⻏ appears as the left hand side component of pictures of some KanjiLiberal.

⻏ is easy to confuse with other Unicode characters.

JapanBeta

X2ECF ⻏, village

X2ECF ⻏ is interpreted as JapanBeta;
X2ECF ⻏ it is element of the set denoted with symbol JapanBeta.

By definition, JapanBeta is set of following three Unicode characters:
X2ECF ⻏ , KanjiRadical
X2ED6 ⻖ , KanjiRadical
X961D 阝 , KanjiLiberal

At Macintosh default font, all the three characters ⻏, ⻖, 阝 look just the same:

At Linux, characters ⻏ and ⻖ look the same, but 阝 appears a little bit smaller:

Even a native Japanese speaker, watching characters ⻏⻖ 阝 is unlikely to answer:
Which of them is X2ECF?
Which of them is X2ED6?
Which of them is X961D?

For such a case, the correct specification of the character is "⻏ X2ECF or ⻖ X2ED6 or 阝 X961D"

Term JapanBeta (or JapanB) is defined to substitute this long and complicated construction with single word.

Up to year 2021, the computer support of the Japanese characters is underdeveloped. No united default font is established, that would allow each character to look in the same at various computers, but different from other characters.

While this fault is not corrected, the general term JapanBeta has sense.

In each of the specific cases, the confusive character can be specified with its hexadecimal number ( X2ECF or X2ED6 or X961D, or with its ascii name (Kozuto, Kozutohen or Oozuto), or with its phonetic representation through Hiragana (こざと, こざとへん or おおざと).

Up to year 2021, no commonly accepted bijection between these sets of names seem to be established.

Component of other kanjis

X2ECF ⻏ in not popular by itself, but picture, similar to ⻏ appears as element of images of other, more usual kanjis.

X2ECF ⻏ is claimed to appear at the right hand side of a kanji, if the meaning is somehow related with a town, village

Similar image may appear at the left hand side of a kanji, if its meaning is somehow related with a hill, mound. in this case, the JapanBeta is interpreted as X2ED6 ⻖.

Due to the siilarity of the characters of JapanBeta, observing the element of kanji picture, it is not possible to guess, is it X2ECF ⻏ or X2ED6 ⻖ or X961D 阝. The Kanjiaive suggests the following rule:

If such a character appears at the LEFT hand side of a kanji,
then it is believed to be X2ED6 ⻖, hill, mound

If such a character appears at the RIGHT hand side of a kanji,
then it is believed to be X2ECF ⻏, village, town, city.

Here are some examples:

X90A6 邦, home country, くに

X90FD 都, capital

X90B8 邸, residence

Synonyms

Variety of senses of characters, where image of X2ECF ⻏ can be considered as an element, is huge. But for the original meaning (village), the synonyms are used instead:

X2FA2 ⾢ and/or X9091 邑 , rural community

X5E02 市 , city

X6751 村 , village

X753A 町 , town

Most of images of the synonyms do not use ⻏ as element.

The accurate translation to the English of these synonyms is not possible; the translations of these terms look very similar.

References

Keywords

City, Confusion, JapanBeta, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiConfudal, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, Oozato, Unicode, X2ECF ⻏ , X2ED6 ⻖ , X961D 阝