⽫

⽫ (X2F6B, ⽫) is Unicode character, KanjiRadical used in Japanese to denote plate, dish, «тарелка» .

KanjiRadical ⽫ (X2F6B) is easy to confuse with 皿 (X76BF).

Semantic

Usually, ⽫ refers to plate, «тарелка», device used to put food for the eating.

Graphic

Picture ⽫ appears as horizontal line at the top, four vertical lines and one long horizontal line at the bottom.

This picture van be interpreted as spaghetti picked up above the plate with a fork.

Phonetic

(X2F6B, ⽫) can be pronounced as «sara», さら.

However, さら may have also different meanings: さらに遠く (さらにとく) , further, «дальше»

None of the two syllables of this word should be stressed.

Confusion

Kanji radical character (X2F6B, ⽫) is easy fo confuse with

Kanji liberal character X76BF 皿 that has similar meaning, similar pronunciation and similar drawing picture.

Even a native Japanese speaker, looking at characters

⽫ and 皿

is unlikely to answer, which of them is X2F6B and which is X76BF.

Some software (as Macintosh) use the same picture for each of these two characters.

For this reason, neither ⽫ nor 皿 is element of Tarja.

In Tarja, the following options exist for the substitution:

1. The explicit code X2F6B. It is a little bit longer, 5 bytes instead of 3, and difficult to remember.

2. The Khiragana さら. It has several meanings and also may cause confusions.

3. The romanji «sara». Not capitalized in order to avoid confusion with female name Sara.

4. The English or Russian loan: «Plate» or «Tarelka» (Тарелка).

Encoding

Encoding of characters ⽫ and 皿 can be revealed with command du.t:

php du.t ⽫皿

does

⽫皿
The array has 6 bytes; here is its splitting:
e2 bd ab e7 9a bf 
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "⽫"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "皿"
}

Unicode character number 12139 id est, [[X2F6B]]
Picture: ⽫ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE2 xBD xAB in the hexadecimal representation and
226 189 171 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 30399 id est, [[X76BF]]
Picture: 皿 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xE7 x9A xBF in the hexadecimal representation and
231 154 191 in the decimal representation

the confusion is mentioned at the Unicode utilities:

https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=2F6B

https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=76BF

Warning

Properties of character ⽫ are analyzed in TORI with scientific goals.

Neither correction of the commonly used software nor modification of the commonly used language belongs to the set of these goals.

This article should not be considered as an attempt to remove the bug from the software not to change the grammar rules of Japanese.

However, he Editor keeps his right to call things with their names and to construct models; in particular, to describe the technical (artificial) language that is free of the confusions mentioned.

References

Keywords

«Japanese»; «Kanji»; «KanjRadical», «SomeU», «Tarelka», «Tarja», «Unicode»; «[[]]»;