Questions tagged [unicode]
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Usage of Encircled Kanji
There appear to be some kanji and other characters such as ①, ②, ③, Ⓐ, ㊄, ㊗, ㊛, ㊑, and many more, which are enclosed in circles.
These characters are listed in unicode and there are quite a lot of them, with various seemingly unrelated kanji, as…
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What are the "Ueda" codes found in CIA documents from the 1940s?
CIA documents from the 1940s, such as this declassified biography of Kim Il Sung, annotate the Chinese characters used in Korean names with numeric "Ueda" codes, like this:
Kim Sung-ju is 金成柱 and Kim Il Sung is 金日成, so we can infer that 12380 = 金. …
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Kanjis to Romajis first letter
I'm fond of Unicode and what romanization attempts. My goal is to get a first latin char (for sorting purposes) of a non-latin character - so far I succeeded by transcribing Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Katakana, Hiragana, Hangul (including all its…
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What Unicode code points are needed to write Japanese Jōyō-Kanji?
Sorry if this isn't exactly the most 'language' related question, but what ranges of Unicode code points are needed to write Japanese?
I've got the Hiragana, Katakana, punctuation, etc; but the jōyō-Kanji are mixed in with the other Chinese…
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How do you type Encircled Kanji? (丸囲み文字)
I am needing to use a lot of encircled kanji. (See Usage of Encircled Kanji)
However, I am using Linux, and I cannot find any information on how to actually type the encircled kanji on Linux. Copying and pasting the characters is not viable…
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Hiragana Unicode Chart has two characters for each
Below is a unicode chart for Hiragana characters. I see there are two a, i, u, e, o and so on, small and big ones. Please help me explain this as I am just starting to learn Hiragana today.
I got this unicode chart from this page.
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