What Hanzi-Latin hybrid characters exist?

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I was going through Babel Stone's PUA page when I came across, some, of the following characters. This one is Japanese:

Kanji-Latin hybrid = 慶 in the name of Keiō University (慶應大学)

This one is Korean:

Hanja-Hangul hybrid = 圖 do "map" (Evidence)

This one is Zhuang:

Sawndip-Latin hybrid = enj "to stick out one's chest or stomach" (= ⿰益先 in Ext. G)

So, we've got Kanji-Latin hybrid, Hanja-Hangul hybrid & Sawndip-Latin hybrid characters, but where are the Hanzi-Latin hybrid characters?

What Hanzi-Latin hybrid characters exist? (If any?)

Andriy Makukha · Answer 1 · 2019-07-27T14:14:00.420

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If you consider only "official" characters encoded in the Unicode 12.1, as opposed to the Private Use Area (PUA) that you are referring to, or other unstandardized and humorous characters, then there doesn't seem to be any Latin-Hanzi hybrids. At all.

I carefully looked through Unicode 12.1 ranges for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese characters, specifically:

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B – this document alone took me 3 days to process.
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
CJK Unified Ideographs

And noticed plenty of unusual and peculiar ideographs, like these:

But not a single character contains a Latin letter.

The closest to look like having a letter inside are these two. They have a stroke that looks precisely like a lowercase Greek alpha:

edited Jul 27 '19 at 14:14

answered Jul 27 '19 at 09:42

Andriy Makukha

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That's quite some dedication, and extremely interesting. – mic Jul 27 '19 at 20:56
@MiCl, I was just curious what are the strangest characters I could possibly find. As well as whether there are indeed any Hanzi-Latin hybrids. – Andriy Makukha Jul 29 '19 at 08:22
More strange characters: Are there no rounded or circular strokes in any 漢字？ – Flux Aug 01 '19 at 01:17
looks like it says "ok" when it's written small. – Mou某 Aug 02 '19 at 10:12
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For your information, Ken Lunde recently (january 2020) proposed to add a property kStrange in unicode to track these curiois han characters. The linked proposal condtains a list, and in the characters already encoded in Unicde, two from extendsion F might qualify as latin hybrid: U+2CF01 (from U+0292 ʒ LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH, symbol for “dram,” and U+2CF04 (from U+2125 ℥ OUNCE SIGN), both of japanese origin – Frédéric Grosshans Mar 30 '20 at 12:27
@FrédéricGrosshans, that's a very interesting character compilation indeed. Thanks. – Andriy Makukha Mar 31 '20 at 16:02

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '19 at 02:04

It is hard to eliminate all possibilities. But from daily life, there is no such hybrid characters. It is more simple to treat a Latin letter as a character. There is no practical use of it.

For example, 維他命Ａ (Vitamin A, also known as 維生素甲)，Ｔ尺 (T-square, also known as 丁字尺)，Ｔ恤(T-shirt, also known as 短袖圓領衫).

In Hong Kong, it is common to write Arabic numerals and Latin letters for shorthand in work or less formal conversation, mixing homophone and shape and English. For example, 0T for 檸茶(lemon tea), 0水 for 檸水(lemon water), c9 for 師奶 (housewives).

You might find hybrid in the brand logos and some artistic designs.

There is a joke in a Hong Kong film Love Undercover (新紮師妹) and create a fake hybrid character like this.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 24 '19 at 02:06

Hanzi-Latin hybrid characters should be a system using Hanzi and Latin characters simultaneously
Hanzi strobes and Latin charaters definitely can not be mingled in ONE symbol. I never heard that. However Hanzi characters and Latin charaters can occur sequentially in a sentence and a paragraph

What Hanzi-Latin hybrid characters exist?

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