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In a similar vein, there are kanji (Chinese characters) with unknown origins called "ghost kanji". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208#Kanji_from_unknown_s
by grose 3y ago
In a similar vein, there are kanji (Chinese characters) with unknown origins called "ghost kanji". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208#Kanji_from_unknown_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208#Kanji_from_unknown_...
- dboreham 3y agoSince I just returned home to the US from a visit to Japan, I found that fascinating reading.
- eterevsky 3y agoI like how the kanji in the table are classified into 3 categories: Unknown, Source unclear and Unidentifiable.
- peterfirefly 3y agoand those that belong to the emperor, I presume.
- smsm42 3y agoExcept those that are drawn with a fine camelhair brush.
- contingencies 3y agoThere are also character variants. Sometimes between CJK, but also historic. I attended a conference at Academica Sinica in Taipei with knowledgeable academic sorts circa 2001 who had apparently elucidated various issues with Unicode unification coming from the full range of prior encodings, fonts, dictionaries, input systems and mechanical typesetting systems.
- mFixman 3y ago> In particular, 妛 was probably created when printers tried to create 𡚴 by cutting and pasting 山 and 女 together. It's crazy to think that a lot of written Kanji and Hanzi come from print drifting and a small accumulation of errors, similar to how many new words are formed in spoken language.