Michel Mariani
@mikaeru@mastodon.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/115583941639906512
Generally, new CJK Ideographs proposed by members of the IRG (Ideographic Research Group) go through several rounds of exchanges/discussions until they get approved or possibly postponed or rejected.
For instance, here is the page dedicated to UK-20538 โฟฐใ ไน (with images as "pieces of evidence"), which eventually made its way to Unicode 17.0, encoded as U+323BF ๐ฒฟ :
Michel Mariani
@mikaeru@mastodon.social
Unicode 17.0 introduces five new CJK Unified Ideographs related to Chinese personal pronouns, four of them having been proposed by Andrew West (BabelStone):
ยซย The other Chinese pronoun coming to Unicode v. 17.0 next year, in addition to โฟฐใ ไน (3p gender-neutral, โฟฐ็ทไน (3p explicitly male), โฟฑๅฆณๅฟ ( f. equivalent of ๆจ), โฟฑๆๅฟ (Taiwanese 1p plural), is โฟฑๅฅนๅฟ (f. equivalent to ๆน)ย ยป
๐ https://bsky.app/profile/babelstone.co.uk/post/3lbrxowqt7k24
