⼤

岩の間の⼤男

⼤ is Unicode character number 12068 (see Utf8table).

Html input:
⼤ (& # 1 2 0 6 8 ;)
⼤ (& # x 2 F 2 4 ;)

Phonetic

⼤ may be pronounced as ダイ, "dai".

Semantic

⼤ may have sense "big", "large"; especially in combination 大きい.

大学 means "big school", id est, college or University; pronounced as だいがく.

Antonyms

森の間の⼩男

Unicode Character 12073; ⼩, html input:
⼩ (⼩ (& # 1 2 0 7 3 ;))
⼩ (⼩ (& # x 2 F 2 9 ;))

may have opposite meaning: "little", "small", "petite", "pequeno", "klein".

The example is shown in figure at right.

In Japanese, often, ⼩ is followed with two hiragana symbols: ⼩さい.

Unicode Character 23567 小, html input:
小 (小 (& # 2 3 5 6 7 ;))
小 (小 (& # x 5 C 0 F ;))
also can be considered as antonym of ⼤

Characters
⼩ (⼩ (& # 1 2 0 7 3 ;)) and
小 (小 (& # 2 3 5 6 7 ;)) are easy to confuse.

Encoding

Character ⼤ is encoded with 3 bytes:
226 188 164

The encoding of ⼤ and related characters can be seen with the PHP code below:

<?php
function mb_str_split($str) {
   // split multibyte string in characters
   // Split at all positions, not after the start: ^
   // and not before the end: $
   $pattern = '/(?<!^)(?!$)/u';
   return preg_split($pattern,$str);
}

function uniord($a) 
 {
   $M=strlen($a);
   $p=ord($a[0]);                    if($M==1) return $p;
   $p-=194;  $p*=64; $p+=ord($a[1]); if($M==2) return $p;
   $p-=2050; $p*=64; $p+=ord($a[2]);           return $p;
 }

$a='⼤ 大 ⼩ 小'; /* two pairs of different unicode characters separated with spacebars */

$N=strlen($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);

#mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");

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");
}
?>

The output is:

The array has 15 bytes; here is its splitting:
e2 bc a4 20 e5 a4 a7 20 e2 bc a9 20 e5 b0 8f 
array(7) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "⼤"
  [1]=>
  string(1) " "
  [2]=>
  string(3) "大"
  [3]=>
  string(1) " "
  [4]=>
  string(3) "⼩"
  [5]=>
  string(1) " "
  [6]=>
  string(3) "小"
}

Unicode character number 12068 id est, x2f24
Picture: ⼤ uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xe2 xbc xa4 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 164 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 00032 id est, x0020
Picture:   uses 1 bytes. These bytes are:
x20 in the hexadecimal representation and
 32 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 22823 id est, x5927
Picture: 大 uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xe5 xa4 xa7 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 164 167 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 00032 id est, x0020
Picture:   uses 1 bytes. These bytes are:
x20 in the hexadecimal representation and
 32 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 12073 id est, x2f29
Picture: ⼩ uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xe2 xbc xa9 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 188 169 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 00032 id est, x0020
Picture:   uses 1 bytes. These bytes are:
x20 in the hexadecimal representation and
 32 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 23567 id est, x5c0f
Picture: 小 uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
xe5 xb0 x8f in the hexadecimal representation and
229 176 143 in the decimal representation

Confusion

With some softwares, character number 12068 (⼤) looks similar to character number 22823 (大) .
Html input:
大 (& # 2 2 8 2 3 ;)
大 (& # x 5 9 2 7 ;)

The similarity in the graphical representations of characters ⼤ and 大 may cause confusions.

The main difference is, Character 大 (& # 2 2 8 2 3 ;) can be interpreted as Chinese Kanji, while ⼤ is interpreted as Japanese one.

References

This article can be referred as https://mizugadro.mydns.jp/t/index.php/%E2%BC%A4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jōyō_kanji The jōyō kanji system of representing written Japanese consists of 2,136 characters.

Keywords

Japanese, Kanji, SomeU, Unicode, UtfH, Utf8table,

⼤ ⼤ (& # 1 2 0 6 8 ;), 大 大 (& # 2 2 8 2 3 ;), ⼩ (⼩ (& # 1 2 0 7 3 ;)), 小 (小 (& # 2 3 5 6 7 ;))