On Apr 8, 2004, at 1:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a difference between U+66F6 and U+3ADA?
The newest UNIHAN.TXT file doesn't have a definition field for U+66F6. The glyphs in the Unicode 4.0 book appear identical for these two characters. One is placed with radical 72, the other with radical 73, although UNIHAN.TXT gives both as having radical 73.
U+3ADA kIRGKangXi 0502.080
U+66F6 kKangXi 0502.080
This is all rather muddled, and I'm afraid that the IRG isn't helping matters.
There are two characters involved, one with the "sun" radical and one with the "speech" radical. The former means "early morning, daylight" and is a variant of U+6612. The latter has the speech radical and means various things (it's a unit of measure, the name of a famous sword, and so on).
The clear intention was for U+66F6 to be the latter and U+3ADA the former, but because the two characters basically look exactly the same, things have gotten rather mixed up. (It doesn't help that they're also pronounced the same in Mandarin.) E.g., the IRG has assigned U+3ADA the Hanyu Da Zidian and KangXi indices of the latter, and U+66F6 the indices of the former. I'll obviously have to take up an action item to see that this gets straightened out.
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