Re: Kanji for Orchid

"Gareth J M Saunders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi folks,
> 
> right! I'm hunting for the correct Unicode codes for the Mah Jong-related
> kanji, and I'm a little muddled with 'orchid' and would kindly appreciate
> some clarification.
> 
> According to the document of Mah Jong characters in Unicode font that Tom
> Sloper kindly e-mailed me a good while ago the character for the Orchid
> 'season/flower' is U+6B04.  This can be seen at
> http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=6B04.  This page
> says it has the Mandarin 'LAN2', and the definition "railing, balustrade;
> animal pan".  But this doesn't seem to tally with the character on the
> orchid tile shown in either Millington's or Lo's books.  The other
> characters for Plums, Chrysanthemum and Bamboo all match up, as do the
> seasons, spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter.
> 
> I've also discovered that U+5170
> (http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5170) is Mandarin
> 'LAN2' and is given the definition "orchid; elegant, graceful".  But neither
> does this match with the Millington tile image.
> 
> Looking up the Chinese Glossary at the back of Millington reads: 6721 lan2
> (C.H. lan; H. lau; F. loa, lau; N. laan; J.ran) 'a general term for
> orchidaceous plants - "orchid"'.
> 
> Any guidance (so long as it's correct!) and clarification would be
> gratefully accepted.  Thanks.
> 
> Gareth J M Saunders
> Edinburgh, UK

How about this one? 862d

http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=862d