Re: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK)

[Kenneth Whistler]

Marco said:

> Some of these characters are quite common in modern life (e.g., "oxygen" is
> certainly written somewhere in all Chinese hospitals), so it would surprise
> me if they are not in Unicode.
> 

And the ideographs for the elemental gasses, too, are encoded:

H  6C2B
He 6C26
N  6C2E
Ne 6C16
F  6C1F
Cl 6C2F
Kr 6C2A
...

and yes:

O  6C27 Oxygen (yang3).

Pierpaolo said:

> I cannot check now if these characters are included in Unicode as I don't
> have TUS handy in this moment.

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html  (The Online Edition)

and

http://www.unicode.org/charts/draftunicode31/  (for CJK Extension B, etc.)

--Ken