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That's a good question. Unfortunately, a lot of old Unicode process documentation isn't available online -- you can see a couple of relevant-sounding documents
by duskwuff 6y ago
That's a good question. Unfortunately, a lot of old Unicode process documentation isn't available online -- you can see a couple of relevant-sounding documents at [1], but very little of it is available until 1999 or so.
There are some pretty clear patterns to the character ordering, though -- if you look closely, you can see big runs of characters which share radicals. For example, characters 5000 through 500F are:
倀 倁 倂 倃 倄 倅 倆 倇 倈 倉 倊 個 倌 倍 倎 倏
all of which have the 亻radical on the left side. It's clearly not arbitrary.
[1]: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1990/Register-1990.html https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1990/Register-1990.html
- cynix 6y ago> all of which have the 亻radical on the left side. Except for 倉 it seems.
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- jschwartzi 6y agoIt looks like it's merged under the roof in that character.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoNo, a1369209993 is correct - 亻is the combining form of 人 (the "单人旁"); 倉 uses the more basic 人 form.
- a1369209993 6y agoSupposedly the two strokes at the top that look like a roof are somehow supposed to be the same character as "亻". You could argue that it's not any stupider than claiming that a upside-down vee with a crossbar is the character as a dee with the ascender cropped off, but it also isn't any less stupid, so... <shrug>.
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- lifthrasiir 6y ago> There are some pretty clear patterns to the character ordering, though -- if you look closely, you can see big runs of characters which share radicals. That's because those runs were allocated at once (e.g. CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G spanning from U+30000 to U+3134A) and they were systematically ordered by radicals and stroke counts. Note that radicals and stroke counts are fairly arbitrary and can differ among character sources (the Unihan database has a ton of them). While fairly predictable, this ordering is ultimately arbitrary.