Another sinograph for Unicode — the third-person gender-neutral pronoun
Language Log 2026-01-17
Summary:
No sooner had I posted about a block of 11,328 proposed Small Seal characters dating back roughly two millennia being incorporated in UNICODE than a single spanking new sinograph surfaced and was urgently put forward for inclusion, and it is causing a bit of a ruckus. That is the third-person gender-neutral pronoun X也, which is […]