▲ 《改併五音類聚四聲篇海》, 明萬曆己丑本, 卷二

kFanqie 乙芥 胡葛

Noted, thank you.

Related to 𡀽?

Evidence accepted, thank you.

Reply to Comment #14046.

香云&⿰口盖; is also called as 香云盖菩萨. We can treat this character as the variant of U+2103D 𡀽, but they are not the T/S variants. 蓋 and 盖 are not the T/S pair for the components.

Eiso (#14608) is absolutely correct that 蓋 and 盖 are a T/S pair of characters, but are not a T/S pair for components. 蓋/盖 are defined in Table 1 of the General Tables of Simplified Characters (简化字总表), for T/S pairs which are explicitly not applicable to components "不作简化偏旁用的简化字".

However, the kSimplifiedVariant and kTraditionalVariant fields defined in Unihan_Variants.txt do not correspond to the officially-defined set of simplified/traditional characters, but include all sorts of non-standard and de facto simplifications, as well as treating old style and new style orthographic forms (新旧字形) as if they were traditional/simplified pairs (e.g. 呂/吕 are defined as a T/S pair in Unihan, even though they are not a 繁體字/简体字 pair but a 舊字形/新字形 pair).

It is no surprise that Unihan treats 蓋 and 盖 as T/S components for the character pairs 㯼/𣙥, 䡷/𰺡, 壒/𭏦, 礚/𥕤, 鑉/𫠁:

U+3BFC kSimplifiedVariant U+23665
U+23665 kTraditionalVariant U+3BFC

U+4877 kSimplifiedVariant U+30EA1
U+30EA1 kTraditionalVariant U+4877

U+58D2 kSimplifiedVariant U+2D3E6
U+2D3E6 kTraditionalVariant U+58D2

U+791A kSimplifiedVariant U+25564
U+25564 kTraditionalVariant U+791A

U+9449 kSimplifiedVariant U+2B801
U+2B801 kTraditionalVariant U+9449

Therefore, based on the current loose definitions of kSimplifiedVariant and kTraditionalVariant in Unihan, it is reasonable to add GZ-1742502 as a simplified variant of U+2103D 𡀽 (also U+6FED 濭 and U+31A1A 𱨚).

However, I think that the current Unihan definitions of simplified and traditional variants is very unsatisfactory, and needs to be thoroughly revised. My opinion would be to remove all old/new orthographic forms (such as 呂/吕), and define new keys for them (e.g. kOldForm and kNewForm). I would also remove kSimplifiedVariant from all characters which are not explicitly or implicitly defined as simplified characters in the latest official table of simplifications, and replace them with some other key.

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