Kevin Aw wrote:

Damn!  Those characters didn't come through at all!  Lemme see if I can fix it:

> S  The hirigana for the sound "A" looks exactly like a simplified writing of the

> word "awn" or "Peace" in Chinese.
> S-JIS: 
> Big5:  w

S-JIS:   
Big5: w


>   The hirigana for "ya" in Japanese looks similar to the stylized word "ya" in
> Chinese (not sure of its exact meaning.. probably there isn't an exact meaning.)

> S-JIS: 
> Big5: A]

S-JIS: 
Big5: ]


>   The hirigana for "me" looks the same as the stylized word for "leu" .. or
> "girl"...
> S-JIS: 
> Big5:  Ak

S-JIS:  
Big5: k

>    The most convincing case is the hirigana for "hu"/'fu".. which looks just like

> the stylized character for "but" ("bu" in Mandarin)...
> S-JIS: 
> Big: Av

S-JIS: 
Big5: ぃ


  I hope this shows up properly..

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Kevin Aw <kevinaw@home.com>