Talk:Hentaigana
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I am curious about this addition: "The hiragana "syllabic n" (ん) originally derives from a hentaigana for /mu/." As I understand it, ん derives from the 天 character. Can anyone shed some light on this? adamrice 19:19, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
That's 无 (as in 無, nothing(ness)), not 天. - 218.208.245.127 15:11, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
An example on the right side would be nice. As it is now, I thought the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sho.png image was a hentaigana until I read more carefully.
- Finding public-domain images can be a problem, but if you find one, go ahead and post it. adamrice 13:51, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Not in Unicode?
Why has Unicode no code points for hentaigana characters assigned? --84.61.22.108 14:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- Because it's an obsolete writing system. --FlareNUKE 01:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- No. Unicode already includes several obsolete writing systems, and they've recently even accepted the future addition of a script that's not just obsolete, but undeciphered. We don't even know what the symbols mean.
- Well, in that case it could be either be because
- 1. It's not well known, and they have not gotten around to it, or
- 2. They don't see a point in it.
- FlareNUKE 11:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- I think the reason is that they're considered variant forms of the existing hiragana characters. But that's arguable, of course, so maybe they'll be added to unicode in the future. --Ptcamn 01:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- No. Unicode already includes several obsolete writing systems, and they've recently even accepted the future addition of a script that's not just obsolete, but undeciphered. We don't even know what the symbols mean.
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- Unicode does indeed encode historical scripts. However, no one has submitted a proposal yet. They are not variants. Bendono 06:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Full Table list:
http://japan-studies.com/language/hiragana/hentaigana/ --FlareNUKE 11:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- That table is far from complete. Bendono 06:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Characters
Who created the hentaigana images shown in the article? The calligraphy is beautiful. 66.171.76.241 04:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
