炮, 砲

[nipponman]

Firstly, are these two just variants of each other? Secondly, has anyone ever heard of the fact that 砲 was actually written as 石+馬+交? That would be really cool to write it that way:D .

Any help would be appreciated,

nipponman

[nipponman]

Actually, there is a picture here: http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=792E&useutf8=false. So are these just variants, or what? I searched the "Ancient chinese forms" site and got nothing.

[TaijiMantis]

一样的。

砲一般用在象棋里面，一方是炮，一方是砲。现在很少了。

至于礮，繁体字。

[nipponman]

Good, thanks. I'm gonna write it that way from now on then.

[skylee]

nipponman, haven't you noticed 裏/裡 and 着/著 yet?

[889]

You should have the character in your font:

礮

[nipponman]

Actually sky, I have, and I only write the left characters. But I see 炮 and 砲 in traditional. I only see 裡 , 著 in traditional (rarely I will see 裏, unless I'm reading Japanese)It is strange. 礮 is not in my font system though, it is not in CQuickTrans or NJStar.

[skylee]

I only write the left characters.

I use 裏 and 着. But do note that 著 (zhu4) has meanings other than those of 着 (zhe, zhuo2, zhao1, zhao2).

[nipponman]

Originally posted by: skylee

I use 裏 and 着. But do note that 著 (zhu4) has meanings other than those of 着 (zhe, zhuo2, zhao1, zhao2).

Yeah, I had some trouble learning that one, since it has five pronunciations. Luckily, in Japanese we have both!

nipponman