So interesting. Where is that list?

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Hello,
> Dave Mielke, le Sat 31 Jan 2009 03:02:24 -0500, a ?crit :> [quoted lines by 
> 高生旺 on 2009/01/31 at 15:52 +0800]> > >For Chinese, may I add more information 
> to descchar?> > Right now we use the description associated with the 
> character as supplied by > the Unicode database. It seems to be rather 
> generic for the ideographic > characters, and, therefore, doesn't seem to be 
> very helpful. For the benefit of > other readers, the Unicode character 9000, 
> for example, has, for its > description, the rather useless phrase "CJK 
> UNIFIED IDEDOGRAPH-9000".> > Does each of those characters have a specific 
> meaning, or can a character have > one meaning in one language and another 
> meaning in another language?> > Do you have a list of what each of those 
> characters actually means?
> That list already exists: there is a more descriptive field in Unicode,for 
> instance for U+9000 it says:
> `Definition in English: step back, retreat, withdrawMandarin Pronunciation: 
> TUI4Cantonese Pronunciation: teoi3Japanese On Pronunciation: TAI TONJapanese 
> Kun Pronunciation: SHIRIZOKU SHIRIZOKERUTang Pronunciation: *tu??iKorean 
> Pronunciation: THOY'
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