曰
曰 X66F0 is Unicode character number 26352, KanjiLiberal, Nichi.
曰 X66F0 [1] can be pronounced as おち (ochi), えつ (etsu), いう (iu) and mean "say", but have many other meanings and pronunciations.
⽇, ⽈, 日, 曰
曰 X66F0 is easy to confuse with other characters also qualified as Nichi.
The four Unicode characters look similar at the screen and may be confused.
Even a native Japanese speaker, looking at characters
⽇, ⽈, 日, 曰
is unlike answer:
Which of them is KanjiRadical X2F47?
Which of them is KanjiRadical X2F48?
Which of them is KanjiLiberal X65E5?
Which of them is KanjiLiberal X66F0?
In order to avoid mistakes, some programming is necessary.
The Utf8 encoding of these characters can be calculated with PHP program ud.t;
file uni.t also should be loaded. Then, command
php ud.t 2F47 2F48 65E5 66F0
reveals the encoding:
2F47 12103 ⽇ ⽇
Unicode character number 12103 id est, X2F47
Picture: ⽇ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBD X87 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 189 135 in the decimal representation
2F48 12104 ⽈ ⽈
Unicode character number 12104 id est, X2F48
Picture: ⽈ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE2 XBD X88 in the hexadecimal representation and
226 189 136 in the decimal representation
65E5 26085 日 日
Unicode character number 26085 id est, X65E5
Picture: 日 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE6 X97 XA5 in the hexadecimal representation and
230 151 165 in the decimal representation
66F0 26352 曰 曰
Unicode character number 26352 id est, X66F0
Picture: 曰 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE6 X9B XB0 in the hexadecimal representation and
230 155 176 in the decimal representation
The same can be done with PHP program du.t; command
php du.t ⽇⽈日曰
provides the similar output, confirming, that characters ⽇,⽈,日,曰 are not confused with the software.
Graphics
Character 曰 looks as two rectangles one on another.
With some software, 曰 X66F0 looks a little bit wider, than Nichi characters
X2F47 ⽇ and
X65E5 日.
This difference can be seen at the strong zooming-in and overlapping. At the normal printing, difference between the Nichi characters is only in few pixels and cannot be detected with naked eye; for this reason, the characters combined in the class of equivalence Nichi. However, for analysis of the text (if the digital version of a document is available), the character can be dropped into program du.t and its encoding can be revealed; it is different from that of other Nichi characters.
the similarity of the Nichi characters allows to write words with character 曰 in many ways, causing the confusions. Doe example, word Nichiyoubi can be written in 60 different ways; some of them use character 曰.
Examples
ja.wiktionary
Japanese version of Wictionary
[2]
suggests examples:
難読[編集]
曰佐(おさ)
曰糖崎(いくさき)
曰理(わたり)
熟語[編集]
曰若.
Jisho
Jisho [3] suggests the following meanings, pronunciations and examples for X66F0 曰:
say, reason, pretext, history, past..
Kun: いわ.く、 のたま.う、 のたま.わく、 ここに
On: エツ
Kun reading compounds
曰く 【いわく】 pretext, history, past, story, according to ..., ... says
曰くありげ 【いわくありげ】 meaningful, suggestive
宣ふ 【のたまう】 to say
宣う 【のたまう】 to say, to be pleased to say
曰わく 【のたまわく】 according to ..., ... says
Nihongomaster
Nihongomaster [4] suggests examples for character X65E5 日, similar to X66F0 曰:
日 day sun Japan counter for days
Readings On'Yomi (音読み) ニチ ジツ Kun'yomi (訓読み) ひ -び -か
Popular Words With This Kanji
日, 陽, ひ day, days, sun, sunshine, sunlight, case (esp. unfortunate), event
日本, にほん, にっぽん Japan
日本人, にほんじん, にっぽんじん Japanese person, Japanese people
日米, にちべい Japan-America
同日, どうじつ the same day
一日, １日, いちにち, いちじつ, ひとひ, ひとえ first day of the month, one day
一日, １日, いちにち, いちじつ, ひとひ, ひとえ first day of the month, one day
日夜, にちや day and night, always
来日, らいにち arrival in Japan, coming to Japan, visit to Japan
Other Nichi
Visually, character X66F0 曰 look very similar to other Nichi characters; especially, if it is already printed and it is not possible to drop it to the Sedan engine, nor to transfer as an argument to program du.t; so, the meanings of other Nichi can be attributed to X66F0 曰 too.
曰 is one of the most confusing characters; it presence in a communication may indicate the wish of the author to hide the information, to make the communication useless.
Its meanings are so multiple, that it may have sense to collect sentence, where this character cannot be used.
References
- ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/曰 曰 See also: 日, 臼 and 白 .. (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji) say Readings[edit] (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) Go-on: おち (ochi)←をち (woti, historical) Kan-on: えつ (etsu)←ゑつ (wetu, historical) Kun: いう (iu, 曰う)←いふ (ifu, historical); いわく (iwaku, 曰く)←いはく (ifaku, historical); のたばく (notabaku, 曰ばく); のたまう (notamau, 曰う)←のたまふ (notamafu, historical); のたもう (notamou, 曰う)←のたまふ (notamafu, historical); のたまわく (notamawaku, 曰く)←のたまはく (notamafaku, historical); のたまわす (notamawasu, 曰わす)←のたまはす (notamafasu, historical); のとうぶ (notōbu, 曰ぶ)←のたうぶ (notaubu, historical) .. Named as 平日 (hirabi, literally “wide hi”) to distinguish from the 日 (hi, “sun, day”) kanji.
- ↑ https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/曰 曰 部首: 曰 + 0 画 総画: 4画 筆順 : ファイル:曰-bw.png
- ↑ https://jisho.org/search/%23kanji%20曰 曰 4 strokes Radical: say 曰 Parts: 曰 say, reason, pretext, history, past, flat sun radical (no. 73) Kun: いわ.く、 のたま.う、 のたま.わく、 ここに On: エツ
- ↑ https://www.nihongomaster.com/dictionary/kanji/2160/日 日 4 Strokes JLPT Level 5 Definition of 日 day sun Japan counter for days Readings On'Yomi (音読み) Kun'yomi (訓読み) ニチ ジツ ひ -び -か Popular Words With This Kanji 日, 陽, ひ day, days, sun, sunshine, sunlight, case (esp. unfortunate), event 日本, にほん, にっぽん Japan 日本人, にほんじん, にっぽんじん Japanese person, Japanese people 日米, にちべい Japan-America 同日, どうじつ the same day 毎日, まいにち every day 一日, １日, いちにち, いちじつ, ひとひ, ひとえ first day of the month, one day 一日, １日, いちにち, いちじつ, ひとひ, ひとえ first day of the month, one day 日夜, にちや day and night, always 来日, らいにち arrival in Japan, coming to Japan, visit to Japan
https://dictionary.sanseido-publ.co.jp/column/kotowaza13 今週のことわざ 曰（いわ）く言（い）い難（がた）し 筆者: 三省堂編修所
Keywords
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