Getting 非unicode but it's kind of hard to believe.
Is there really no unicode for "扌"?
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Where did you find this character? It's probably a rare/regional (southwest) variation of other character, like 楞, 愣 or 塄? (Although the given meaning suggests something different.) Some characters have many different variations, and there are no Unicode for them all, it seems. – Rodrigo Dec 22 '15 at 13:44
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1When were zisea or yedict last updated? May be the CJK Unified Ideographs Ext. E have this included. – imrek Dec 23 '15 at 08:44
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扌has unicode, but maybe your input is not encoded in unicode. This is not a Chinese question, but a encoding problem. I believe if you ask some computer programmer or I18N engineer, you would get better answer – gcd0318 Dec 23 '15 at 04:42
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Uhhhhh....this is not a question about 扌but about 扌 as a radical with 罒 and 方, so don't really know what you are answering – Mou某 Dec 23 '15 at 04:44
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that's the same problem. you are not asking a question about Chinese, but character encoding. You should ask I18N engineer, but not people learning Chinese – gcd0318 Dec 23 '15 at 08:57
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Fear no more, for there is now:
「」
(Unicode: U+2D865)
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1I can see most of the Chinese characters on this site but not the one you posted. What do I need to do to have it appear on my English Windows 10? – joehua Nov 22 '20 at 21:24
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@joehua I cannot either. It would take some time (maybe a lot) for fonts to get updated to include these characters. And you may have to manually install them. These characters can only the correctly displayed with appropriate fonts installed. – fefe Nov 23 '20 at 02:22
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Nothing surprising about it. I too have never seen this character, and the Unicode doesn't record all Chinese characters, by far. Here's what the Unicode tables show:
The main table, radical 扌, 9 strokes.
The Extension B table, radical 扌, 9 strokes.
The Extension B table, radical 扌, 9 strokes, continued.
As you can see, no 扌罒方 here. So, no Unicode.
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1My surprise was that it's collected in 《字海》and a bunch of my old (topolectical) dictionaries all have it – Mou某 Dec 24 '15 at 04:25
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Sure and if I take my old paper dictionary that has 50k+ characters, it will probably be there. Doesn't have anything to do with Unicode organisation though. Note you said *old* dictionaries. Which were printed way before the Unicode was started. Don't assume all sinograms have a Unicode... – dda Dec 24 '15 at 06:31
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As a native Chinese, I've never learned this character. But I can't tell whether it "really doesn't exist".
I think it's a region-specific-writing-by-mistake creation. People want to express the meaning but don't know there is an existing character for it. Back when communicating with the outside was very difficult, it was a common scenario.
According to the explanation of the character, there is a formal character 捻 to express the same meaning.
