Where does “Unihan” come from?
Unihan (English) comes from English Han, from Middle English han, from Middle English haven, from Old English habban, from Proto-West Germanic habbjan, from Proto-Germanic habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European kh₂pyé-, from Proto-Indo-European keh₂p- — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
Unihan (English): A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme
Definitions
- A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme
Ancestry of “Unihan”, step by step
Unihan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Han
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Han | An imperial Chinese dynasty, ruling (with interruptions) from 206 BC to AD 220, marked by the expansion of the Yellow River's Huaxia culture to the recent conquests of the Qin and a flowering of economic, literary, and scientific development |
| 2 | Middle English | han | Alternative form of haven - "Piers Plowman" |
| 3 | Middle English | haven | to have |
| 4 | Old English | habban | to have, to possess; have |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | habbjan | to have; to lift |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | habjaną | to have, to hold; to lift, heave |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyé- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |
via English unicode
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unicode | A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages |
| 2 | English | code | A short symbol, often with little relation to the... |
| 3 | Middle English | code | Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous... |
| 4 | Old English | codd | bag; sack; husk |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kuddô | bag; pod; sack; purse |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | gewt- | sack; pouch; pouch, sack |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |