RC Logr 20190401 134646
Monday, 1 Apr, 2019
The new Japan era name is «Reiwa» 令和, the 239th such era, which comprises daily-use kanji rei 令 and wa 和, which could be translated as auspicious or orderly or calm or command, and peace or harmony, respectively. 🇯🇵 A couple of data points about the two characters are as follows:
| 令 Rei | 和 Wa | |
|---|---|---|
| Past Eras Containing | 0 | 20 |
| JIS Code | 4E61 | 4F42 |
| UTF16 Unicode | 4EE4 | 548C |
| Strokes | 5 | 8 |
| Old Variant | 龢 | |
| Taught in Grade | 3 | 4 |
| JLPT Level | 2 | 2 |
These details come from Jim Breen’s awesome WWWJDIC and Wikipedia. Software people can note also that there is a Perl library Date::Japanese::Era for Japan era conversion, by Twitter user @miyagawa. And the Unicode blog has a post about character code U+32FF, the one-character representation of the new name.
There were a few eras which were only a couple years long and even 1 year or less in the case of the Genji era, but the average for the last four is about 37 years. Will I last another era?! 🙀
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