Riding the wind of rebirth

Matsui Zuo quickly explained: "Our country's Chinese character policy is mainly reflected in the characters used in textbooks, which is called 'educational Chinese characters'."

"In 730, the Ministry of Culture and Education of my country announced a thousand Chinese characters for education. Seven years later, the number of Chinese characters for education was expanded to [-]. In [-], the Ministry of Culture and Education announced a total of [-] basic commonly used Chinese characters. What Professor Gu said was that the Supreme Court announced the use of Chinese characters for personal names the year before last, and there were [-] names each."

"But according to our "Zhuqiao Dahanhe Dictionary", there are nearly [-] Chinese characters used in our country, and this does not include the simplified characters that have been simplified in four or five years."

Gu Kailai smiled and said: "You are talking about this. It was actually compiled by Morohashi Tetsuji in 52. The whole book has twelve volumes of text and one volume of index. It contains a total of [-] Chinese characters and [-] Chinese words. Sixteen thousand.”

"But I want to remind Mr. Matsui that the Chinese characters included in the "Dahanwa Dictionary" are actually collected from the "Kangxi Dictionary", and the phonetic notation used is also the traditional Chinese fanqie phonetic notation, which is mainly taken from the Chinese "Guangyun Dictionary" " "Ji Yun" and other books, the interpretations range from the original meaning to the extended meaning and metaphorical meaning, which are also mainly from ancient Chinese books."

"Therefore, although the "Dahanwa Dictionary" was compiled by Japanese predecessors, its style and facts are actually a "Chinese Chinese dictionary."

"The only difference is that your country's natural environment, social structure, living habits and many other aspects are different from China's. Therefore, there are some concepts in Japanese that are not found in Chinese, and there are no corresponding Chinese characters to express them in Japanese. These concepts.”

"So you imitated the structure of Chinese characters and used Liushu's 'knowledge method', which means combining two or more Chinese characters or Chinese character components to create your own Chinese characters to represent these concepts in Japanese."

"For example, the character '榊' means a tree dedicated to gods, the character 'tsuji' means a crossroads, the character '堠' means the highest point where the mountain road turns from uphill to downhill, and '辺' means etiquette, polite upbringing, discipline, etc."

"So strictly speaking, only these self-made Chinese characters are your unique 'national characters', and they account for a very small proportion of the 130 and six 'commonly used Chinese characters' you have."

Matsui continued to shake his head: "However, even if our country's Chinese characters are exactly the same as Chinese characters, their meanings are different. Therefore, they are also called 'Waji' and 'Waji Kanji'. The cultural core is different."

Zhou Zhi laughed softly: "Mr. Matsui, although Mr. Gu and I both have a very strong research interest in Japanese Chinese characters, this is the UNICODE Research Association. We can put aside the meaning of words and focus on the problem of character codes. .”

"As long as the fonts do not escape from the Hanwen library, we believe there is no need to add more details and waste precious storage space."

"Mr. Zhou's intention is that the font libraries of our two countries should exist dependent on the Han font library?" Jin Chunyi asked: "If this is the case, we will not agree."

"Hahahaha, Mr. Jin, what you said is really interesting." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Do you agree or not, what does it have to do with me? Anyway, we have been working step by step. Breaking through the single-plane limit in the second phase is a definite matter, and the third phase is a sure thing. The new font library is also in full swing."

"No matter how many Chinese characters there are, they can't occupy three planes, right?" Matsui Zou suppressed Jin Chunyi who still wanted to speak. Academics are academics, and there is no point in talking about anything else here.

If we consider it from a political perspective, it is not their turn to come to the meeting. It is better to raise the issue directly from the academic level.

"It's not easy to talk about." Zhou Zhi curled his lips: "We are already preparing to incorporate the "Chinese Character Ocean" edited by Mr. Leng Yulong and Mr. Wei Yixin into the Hanwen library. The dictionary of these two gentlemen has nearly [-] words. scale."

"There's still a lot to be desired." Matsui said. "There are many characters in the canonical documents of Chinese dynasties." Zhou Zhi did not hide his ambitions at all: "Chinese characters are deeply related to Buddhism and Taoism, so Sanskrit and Taoist talisman symbols such as Bagua and Tai Chi diagrams, etc., These are also 'ideograms'."

Without waiting for the other party to react, Zhou Zhi continued: "Except for these, our folk culture also contains many symbols, such as mahjong, Shuanglu, and dice, which can also be counted as 'ideographic characters'."

"Ah..." Matsui Zuo and Jin Chunyi were a little panicked. Are they planning to leave some for us?

"Our country has a vast territory, rich resources, and many ethnic groups." Gu Kailai slowly added: "Many ethnic groups, such as Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Hui, all have their own writing."

“Incorporating their texts into the Hanwenku family is also something we should and must complete.”

"Even if all of these are taken into consideration, there may still be some imperfections." Zhou Zhi said: "As I said, our country is vast and rich in resources, and the language differences between the north and the south are very different. Among the dialects in many regions, there are also 'self-made characters' similar to those in island countries. "

"For example, in Rizhao, Shandong, there is a village called Xiukou, which is pronounced ZHAN. This word does not appear in any dictionary."

"Another example is the word "upper water and lower cattle", which is pronounced as RANG. This word means water buffalo and is a Chinese character created by the Tujia people."

"Another example is that when four trees are put together, they are pronounced PENG, which means lush vegetation. This is the southern dialect of ZJ Province."

"As an ideographic area, if this information is lost, it will be a loss to world culture. Don't you think so, Mr. Matsui?"

Matsui Zou had no idea that the kid in front of him would have such a big pattern. The island nation and Korea had also encountered the misunderstandings in the use of China's GB font. It can even be said that China's GB font was brought into the trap by these two countries. ——That is the standard science and engineering idea, first solve the problems that are not there, and then solve the problems that are not good.

But now Zhouzhi's architectural design seems to be completely different. In Zhouzhi's design, the Chinese, Japanese and Korean character ideographic area is really a large area, with various text symbols and even commonly used graphic symbols, as long as they belong to ideographic symbols All categories should be included.

Wait, he is happy, but us, what should we do? !

In this way, the coding of Japan and South Korea is really not good enough. Firstly, there is a lack of preparation, and secondly, the design ideas cannot reach the height of China. This is truly unprepared.

"What Mr. Zhou said is very correct. The loss of a small symbol is a great loss for our human civilization." Matsui Zuo had to admit: "But your idea is indeed beyond the scope of our previous thinking. We It needs to be readjusted.”

"How about I introduce our plan?" Zhou Zhi asked kindly: "After all, after receiving the convening notice from the UNICODE organization, we also discussed it internally many times and came up with a conceptual framework, which we would also like to invite you to take a look at. See if there are any design flaws."

He said it very politely, but the meaning behind it is very clear, that is, you are only qualified to participate in finding bugs in this matter, and there is not much room for gesticulation in the overall design.