On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Michael Everson wrote: > At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote: > >Michael Everson wrote: > >>Happy New Year of the Y�ng to everybody! (I can't work out whether > >>it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.) > > > >Ram. > > europe.cnn.com (which I was looking at for other, sadder reasons), > says Goat. My local Superquinn's (large grocery chain) has had signs > on all the Chinese food for weeks which says Ram. My Chinese > dictionary says Sheep.
And the website of the Pearl River (www.pearlriver.com) department store in New York City says "lamb"! unihan.txt says that U+7F8A is "sheep, goat; KangXi radical 123". On Google, "year of the goat" has the lead. And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the guiwei year of the sixty-year "cycle of Cathay". Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
