Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in China".

"Julian Bradfield" <jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In article <ng0ad.213009$MQ5.177129@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Tom Sloper <tomster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>"Julian Bradfield" <jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>> No. Let me explain more clearly. In a normal traditional Chinese
>>> typeface, ±N has as its top right component the shape ¤i. However, in
>>> Japanese, the same character has as its top right component the
>>> reduced form of ¤ö, as seen in the top half of §´. This is the shape
>>> used on the cover of the book.
>>
>>You mean like http://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/char/sparrow2.gif?
Is that 
>>the
>>character on the book cover?
>
> Yes, that's it.

Yapp, this way of writing is not common in Hongkong and perhaps among most

Chinese people.

Your other question that I have missed:
 (Also, the left component is written in
> the simplified three-stroke form rather than the full four-stroke
> form, but this I guess is common in handwriting.)

Three-stroke form:
Common in most handwriting. It's formal and standardized in Simplified 
Chinese.

Four-stroke:
Common in formal writing and is formal and standardized in Traditional 
Chinese.

Cheers!

Cofa Tsui
www.iMahjong.com