{"id":556,"date":"2007-12-06T21:25:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/unusual-characters\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:25:03","slug":"unusual-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Unusual characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not the Chinese characters shown below are all variants forms of the &#8216;same&#8217; character.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/chinese_one.gif\" width=\"437\" height=\"98\" alt=\"Variant forms of the complex Chinese character for one\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The character in question is \u58f9 (y\u012b) &#8211; the complex form of &#8216;one&#8217;, which is used on banknotes, coins and cheques. Well actually the first one is a version of \u4e00, the simple from of &#8216;one&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The first two characters come from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianoffbeat.com\/default.asp?Display=1021\">this site<\/a>, which includes a number of other rare and unusual Chinese characters. The only one of them I&#8217;ve seen &#8216;in the wild&#8217; is the Shanxi noodle one (no. 2), which appears in many Chinese restaurants in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not the Chinese characters shown below are all variants forms of the &#8216;same&#8217; character. The character in question is \u58f9 (y\u012b) &#8211; the complex form of &#8216;one&#8217;, which is used on banknotes, coins and cheques. Well actually the first one is a version of \u4e00, the simple from of &#8216;one&#8217;. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}