Saciel Posted March 12, 2017 at 09:49 PM Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 at 09:49 PM Dear crowd intelligence, please help me. I have encountered a character I can't find anywhere on zdic, baike or guhanydacidian and also not with zisea or ciyang. The left part consists out of 丷田大 so two dots on top, than the field, then 大below it. The right part is a 京. Has anyone ever encountred that sign? It's from a Vietnamese stele so it's probably a variant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WenLei-William Posted March 13, 2017 at 04:00 AM Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 at 04:00 AM Could you post a picture so that we may see just in case you misread one of the components? I even checked the Vietnamese Chu Nom Dictionary and it isn't showing up. http://www.chunom.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saciel Posted March 13, 2017 at 09:27 AM Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 at 09:27 AM Yeah that's my problem, too, here it is in the fifth (30th) column. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lips Posted March 13, 2017 at 09:29 AM Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 at 09:29 AM Sounds like another, quite common, way of writing this character: 鲸 Whale. But usually it isn't two dots at the top of the left hand side. The right hand side is commonly written as a 京 now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saciel Posted March 13, 2017 at 10:18 AM Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 at 10:18 AM whale was my guess, too, but I just wasn't sure because I have never heard of whale-mallets to hit Buddhist bells before XD but then it should fit thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneEye Posted March 13, 2017 at 11:50 AM Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 at 11:50 AM Yup, 大 <-> 火 is a pretty common corruption (黑 is an example that went in the opposite direction). I see the 魚 component written that way pretty frequently at sushi restaurants here in Tokyo (incidentally, I typed the variant but the forums won't allow that code point). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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