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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/115583941639906512
There is a very interesting article about gender-inclusive pronouns in Chinese, including mentions of characters yet to be added to the Unicode set, making use of Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS): ⿰无也, ⿰㐅也, ⿰男也...
Janet Davey. (2025). Taking "TA" Beyond the Binary: In Search of Multimodal Gender-inclusive Pronouns in Chinese. Image & Narrative, 25(03), 131–163. Retrieved from https://imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/3417
🔗 [PDF] https://imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/3417/2829
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Unicode 17.0 introduces five new CJK Unified Ideographs related to Chinese personal pronouns, four of them having been proposed by Andrew West (BabelStone):
« The other Chinese pronoun coming to Unicode v. 17.0 next year, in addition to ⿰㐅也 (3p gender-neutral, ⿰男也 (3p explicitly male), ⿱妳心 ( f. equivalent of 您), ⿱我心 (Taiwanese 1p plural), is ⿱她心 (f. equivalent to 怹) »
🔗 https://bsky.app/profile/babelstone.co.uk/post/3lbrxowqt7k24