The less-than-three kanji

[pne]

As you may or may not know, JIS codes for kanji use only seven bits; in ISO-2022-JP, kanji are distinguished from ASCII characters by escape sequences introducing and ending sequences of JIS characters. So (nearly) all sequences of two ASCII characters can also be interpreted as JIS characters.

Even the famous sequence "<3" :) It corresponds to 竺.

Comments

Re: XD

[pne.livejournal.com]

XD is 慊.

Re: :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

And :) is 懇 and ;) is 皐 ^^ (湎)

Re: :)

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I don't actually know any of those characters; will have to look them up as well.

Re: :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

I only knew the middle one since it's used in the old name of the fifth lunar month (satsuki) - though I don't know its meaning by itself.