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UPDATED: Saturday, December 10, 2005 13:30
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FFYING2

Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:15 PM

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Originally posted by Ookamikawahara:
Posted in General as well but was also wondering about the kanji for bluesun. In Japanese the bottom character used is month, but in the show I saw it as the kanji radicle for circle or (en) and wondering if its a difference in Chinese vrs Japanese writing or if its a screw up.

Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters use the same form as Japanese, with the "moon/month" piece on the bottom of the "blue" radical, but the older form is with the Japanese "en" symbol (Chinese yuan is a more complicated character). This older form is the form used in Chinese radical lists, and some Chinese computer fonts display the character the old way.

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OOKAMIKAWAHARA

Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:05 PM

Thanks for all the help. That actually makes sense to me. Yeah a friend of mine in Japan always teases me that traffic light signals are blue not green. So we go back and forth on this issue. Again Thanks!!!

We be aimen to be misbehaven boys and girls
Well we didn't get dressed up to peck a fight for nuthen

HAOLEHAOLE

Saturday, December 10, 2005 1:30 PM

... A lot of the characters are used in both Japanese and Chinese - not classic Chinese, and not simplified (simplified has fewer strokes while producing the same basic character. Don't see it much in FF) - but that "in between" version of Chinese I see on a lot of documents (Japanese was taken from China, after all - the written language - the characters hold meaning, the kana do the grammar thing.. mostly).

... As for the "Serira" thing, I've not seen it, but as one poster has said, it might very possibly be an abbreviation for two or more English words "assimilated" into the Japanese language (we've got a lot of that). "Pasokon" (personal computer), "Konbini" (convenience store), Ka-nabi (car navigation system)... it's an endless list.

... Then again, it could just be somebody working on the sets who doesn't have the knowledge/will/ability to get it right . . . who knows?

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