Your Keyboard Cannot Comprehend These Noodles
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Published 2024-01-03
Today's Unicode supports 149,813 characters in several different Unicode blocks and spanning several planes. The Biang character, both the traditional and simplified version were added to Unicode 13.0 in 2020 at code point U-30EDE and U-30EDD respectively.
While it took nearly 50 years from the advent of the personal computer to when we were finally able to type these characters, hopefully it will take less time for other variant characters to be supported in the Unicode Standard.
Early CJK encoding tables:
kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasuoka/CJK.html
Unicode chronology
www.unicode.org/history/versionone.html
Unicode first press release
www.unicode.org/history/first-pr.htm
Unicode standard principles:
www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/ch02.pdf
Unification of Han Characters:
www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/V2ch02.pdf
Requirements of proposal form:
www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html?utm_source=…
Unicode 1.0 chart:
www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/
www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/CodeCharts2.…
Ideographic Research Group:
appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/
Writing Biang Biang:
• Démonstration de calligraphie chinois...
Relevant Papers:
“■”字文化解析
“biáng”字的文化解读
他 山之石 ，可 以攻玉
Biang就一个字
再说biangbiang面
retro computer by Blake Stevenson from Noun Project (CC BY 3.
All Comments (21)
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𰻝𰻝面 𰻞𰻞麵 Without proper font support the above characters may not render correctly, resulting in a blank box.
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English is a hot mess, but I'm sure glad it uses letters
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I buy the penniless scholar origin for the character. I can see the scholar writing a character with a couple of strokes, looking the shop owner's face whose expression said "you ate 300 yuans worth of noodles, you fat ass. Better make this worth it", then kept adding strokes until the shop owner got either annoyed or satisfied.
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theres no way in hell eating those noodles makes that sound
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Thank goodness China donated those codes to the red cross, with the big shortage that happened in the 2030s there's a lot of poor companies not able to afford to buy a code for their logos, those extra codes are gonna go a long way!
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Fun fact: Certain fonts, like Source Han Sans SC/TC, compose the sequence “⿺辶⿳穴⿲月⿱⿲幺訁幺⿲長馬長刂心” into the single biáng character.
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from my five years of learning chinese this is one of the few characters i can still write from memory due to how much time i spent goofing off in class writing it
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If anyone is wondering why the planes were 94x94, they wanted to make it somewhat ASCII compatible so that code that relies on the ASCII space or the control codes will still work.
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Correction: Korean used Chinese characters (mixed script) in the same way as Japanese up until around the 1970s, since then the number of characters used has rapidly fallen but they are still used as abbreviations or for disambiguation.
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Still one of my favorite Unicode characters, lots of intresting characters can be found on unicode such as Sumerian inscriptions
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Next time Amazon claims they can't pay their employees more, can't enforce quality standards, and must raise prices, just remember they dropped $400 million so their logo can be a typable letter.
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Calling the consolidation of the CJK standards "Han Unification" was pretty funny
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Do this ﷽ next (it's a single Unicode character for some reason, character U+FDFD).
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"bro are you gonna pay for those noodles" starts furiously writing
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Really great video and super interesting topic. Unicode is such a fun thing to learn about, mixing languages and computer science, I don't know why, but I always found the concept of standardisation fascinating
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When the first CJK standards were being established in the 80s, I don't think the screen resolution of computers could even properly display 'biáng' in line with other text. The brush strokes are so dense it would end up looking like a solid block of colour and incomprehensible. Even when it's painted large on a store sign, looking at it from a distance, you understand the character more from context than by visually parsing it.
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"biang biang" sounds to me like the sound of a spring, which makes me imagine that the legendary scholar was calling the noodles extremely rubbery.
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I thought you just called the character noodles bc it's so complicated and mixed up and laughed my ass off. But it's actually about noodles what
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at first, i actually thought that the title was a dig against the chracter. like, this character is so convoluted that you call it "noodles" 😂
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If you remember its alt code, you could type every character in the unicode.
