On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 16:39:48 -0400, "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > > When writing out Japanese numbers a different character is used for every > unit > that is a power of 10,000: > man oku chou kei gai jo jou ... > > Apparently JIS didn't have a character for jo. It looks something like > the > pair: U+79BE U+4E88.
The original chinese character for 10**24 consisted of U+79be on the left (i.e. bushu 115, 'nogi') and U+5e02 on the right. In Japanese, the right hand part seems to have changed into a U+4e88, although there are three other rare variants. The U+5e02/U+4e88 character is not in JIS, a distinction shared by many useful kanji. > (I am trying to correct the table at > http://www.XenCraft.com/resources/multi-currency.html#ja-count ) I don't really know anything about this, but... the character given in this table for 10**20 (U+8a72), although it is often used for 10**20, should really be a U+5793, shouldn't it? The left hand side was originally 0x961c (i.e. left side B radical). I think U+5793 should at least be offered as an alternative; they seem to occur about equally often in google. This page collects together the sets of number kanji from various classical texts: http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~fxba0016/misc/suumei/shiryou.html ...and this one lists 'jo' variants... http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~fxba0016/misc/suumei/suumei.html Regards, Benjamin Peterson -- Benjamin Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
