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rereading my words i realize i was ambiguous; i didnt mean to say that 刀 and 刃 were unified (how would i have written them?) but that unifying those characters
by dastbe 9y ago
rereading my words i realize i was ambiguous; i didnt mean to say that 刀 and 刃 were unified (how would i have written them?) but that unifying those characters across multiple languages is ignoring that they have nuanced meaning based on what language they're in.
then add in your point that the written forms themselve are diverging over time.
- emodendroket 9y agoTo the extent they're exactly the same I don't think it matters. We don't need a separate English and Spanish j because they're pronounced differently. But 刃 in particular isn't the same across languages. The GP seemed to be confused, interpreting the article to mean that Koreans used 刀 instead of 刃 when what the article actually meant is that there are variants of the latter character.