A Chinese character for non-binary gender is being added to Unicode, ≈ X也 - CNN

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A Chinese character for non-binary gender is being added to Unicode, ≈ X也 - CNN

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Nonbinary@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 months ago

Soon you may be able to type a new Chinese character: the gender-neutral pronoun | CNN

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Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/37638260

Non-binary people have been using the existing character"也"with a thing that looks like a Latin X on the side, so they’re going with that.

U+323BF 𲎿

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