What character is 刄 + 丶?

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Here's a pic I took in HK today

What's the 刄 + 丶 char? In

堂飲2 xxxxxxx 28元

I'm guessing its similar to mainlands 两, for alcoholic drink sizes.

I tried zisea & zdic to no avail...

edit: is it this: ? http://www.zdic.net/z/84/wy/20090.htm It's the closest thing I can find

The description "刄 + 点" had me totally baffled. But the unusual character still stood out enough (-: — hippietrail, Aug 16 '15 at 03:27
I want to forge such characters, they never be used anymore, only few of elder people still use them, they are not standardized glyph. — Daniel Yang, Apr 19 '17 at 03:59
Although the character is totally unrelated to 「那」, it appears to be the same as the left hand side of 「那」. See https://chinese.stackexchange.com/q/3889/18338 — dROOOze, Sep 12 '20 at 03:26

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 14 '15 at 17:03

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Yes, it is indeed a variant of 两. You can see it listed here in the Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants 《異體字字典》:

http://dict2.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt?educode=A00284

As for why they've chosen to write it this way, I'm not sure.

answered Aug 14 '15 at 17:03

Claw

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Is this Unicode? – Mou某 Aug 14 '15 at 17:49
I couldn't find it in Unicode. – Claw Aug 14 '15 at 18:38
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I will note that it does look like the left-hand component of 那, which is noted as being 冄, which is a variant of 冉. The similarity appears only to be superficial though and is unrelated to its usage as a variant of 两 though. – Claw Aug 15 '15 at 00:28
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Zisea has it here: http://zisea.com/zscontent.asp?uni=181468 with no additional information at all – Mou某 Aug 15 '15 at 05:44
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Now it is in Unicode: (U+2D0C2, in Extension F). – Alexander Z. Jun 22 '20 at 07:30

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '17 at 03:10

Like @Claw pointed out. This is the variant of 两.

Unlike Latin characters, Chinese characters are graph-like characters. So it's easy to create a brand new character to describe the same thing.

In the China history, Ordinary people could use whatever characters they want as long as they could identify them. Even though government introduced several dictionaries to standardized, there is no strict law to forbid using variants of character.

What character is 刄 + 丶?

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