Re: Why eliminate perfectly healthy kana?

On 4/29/06 8:14 AM, in article 445383d4$0$31646$e4fe514c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Chris Jacobs" <chris.jacobs.news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tzortzakakis Dimitrios wrote:
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Chris Jacobs wrote:
Soren Svendsen wrote:
I wonder when they were killed off? After the occupation?


Unlikely. In that case the sun symbol ? would have been killed too.
And that one is in IME, under "manji".

Chris


Would you mind explaining your logic here? The manji character
continues to be useful for its religious symbolism whereas the kana
under discussion aren't so useful seeing as their sounds had
disappeared from Japanese.

-Brian Baker
The manji character had a religious symbolism in india, too.But a very
infamous person called AH took this symbol, not exactly the manji but
a left-wise svastika,

an ura manji, 45 degrees rotated.
for definition of ura / omote see:
http://www.shorinji-kempo.org/articles/manji/manji_en.html

which many people think that depicts the absolute evil

And that indeed led to some avoidance of the manji, the more it looked like
the nazi swastika the more it was avoided.

JIS has only the omote manji, unicode has both ura and omote:
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5350&useutf8=false

And then there is the legend of Zelda:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon

Chris

Map makers don't seem to avoid it.

Anyway, now seems to be the time to introduce everyone to this important
figure in British Columbia art:

http://www.manwoman.net/


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