Has anyone proposed the following for inclusion in Unicode? If so, what is
their status?
Daoist Hexagrams, 64 forms (the trigrams are already included, but with no
combining mechanism)
The Cangjie "secondary signs", 87 forms for Traditional Chinese, plus 6
more to extend the system to Simplified Chinese. All Chinese characters can
be decomposed into the 24 main Cangjie signs (which are common characters)
plus these abstract shapes. The signs are used extensively, in both
illustrations and text, in textbooks on Cangjie in Chinese, and recently,
in English (Cang Jie Method, by Edouard Butler. Taiwan, 2001). Some of the
Cangjie secondary signs are in Unicode (e.g. a few Korean kwukyel), but not
in any systematic manner .
Edward Cherlin
Generalist
"A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it."
Alice in Wonderland
