Unicode Attack!

[techno_race]

I thought we'd have a little race. In the next 11 hours, we will put any Unicode character here. When the race is over, I'll see what symbol had the most posts. Ready...Set...GO!

[techno_race]

Mine is... ◪

[Twey]

Err... 双?

[techno_race]

"Pair?"

[Twey]

Also set, comparison or a counter for pairs in Japanese. It probably has meaning in Chinese and possibly Korean too.

[techno_race]

Japanese: pair
Chinese: pair

双 isn't a word in Korean, and note that 双 also isn't a word in Mandarin Chinese. 双 is pair in Simplified Chinese. Pair in Mandarin Chinese is 對. However, when I translate pair to Simplified Chinese, I get 对, not 双. They do, however, look almost the same. Pair in Korean is 쌍. Although, when I translate pair to Japanese, I get 組. Strange. Does 組 mean something other than pair in Japanese, or are 組 and 双 synonyms? :confused:

I think.

9 hours...

[Twey]

組 means a set or group, whereas 双, although it can be used to the same effect, has a more precise meaning of "two."
Pair in Korean is 쌍.That's its 한글 spelling, but the Korean language also uses Chinese characters, albeit very rarely these days. I'm not sure if a machine translator would have these forms; if it were part of a longer word, it certainly wouldn't be picked up.

[boxxertrumps]

I get 对, not 双
I see a square with two rows and the characters 58f9 for the first one.
second one is just a japanese character too me.

[techno_race]

as in:
I get 日58f9, not 双.
Strange.
3 hours!

[djr33]

Machine translaters are terrible, and should not be trusted.

[techno_race]

Woo!
Time's up--
双 = 1
◪ = 1
That was rather boring. I'll fire it out for another round tomorrow.

[djr33]

No. It was boring because no one cared. Don't do another round.

[Twey]

as in:
I get 日58f9, not 双.No... on Linux, the default action (probably provided by fontconfig) when a character can't be displayed is to display its Unicode codepoint in a square with a number at each corner.