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What do the "(Ueda: ###, ###, ###)" blocks mean? Some kind of internal CIA/gov't unique-person-identifier?
by mwint 4y ago
What do the "(Ueda: ###, ###, ###)" blocks mean? Some kind of internal CIA/gov't unique-person-identifier?
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- audiometry 4y agoOr Unicode style references to the Chinese characters that compose those names?
- zinekeller 4y agoSince that Unicode didn't exist back then, maybe a table of Hanja? (Also since it mentioned Ueda I guess it originally meant Japanese Kanji repurposed by the US for standardisation.)
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoIt's a Japanese dictionary where characters can be referenced by an index number: https://www.amazon.com/Uedas-Daijiten-Dictionary-Characters-Compounds/dp/B000LECANA https://www.amazon.com/Uedas-Daijiten-Dictionary-Characters-...
- AdamH12113 4y agoIt looks like a way of referring to Korean (or Han?) characters. The document seems to have been typed, so adding characters from another language would be difficult. It looks like: Kim = 12380 Il = 4446 Sung = 3610 Ju = 4871 The interesting part seems to be the claim that Kim Sung-ju's name was originally changed to a different set of characters that were also pronounced Kim Il-sung: Kim: 12380 Il: 1 Sung: 4499 and that this name was later converted to the (12380, 4446, 3610) one from above, which was the name of a famous Korean general who fought the Japanese in the 1920s.