Sitelen Pona Radicals: U+F1C80 - U+F1C9F

Proposal by Rebecca Bettencourt, 2024-04-11

Sitelen Pona is a logographic writing system used to write the constructed language Toki Pona. Both the language and the script were created by Sonja Lang and are documented in her book, Toki Pona: The Language of Good.

In Sitelen Pona, a radical is a recurring graphical component across multiple glyphs. The radical-based analysis was invented after the initial set of glyphs was published in Toki Pona: The Language of Good. Some of these elements were clearly intended, such as the emitters initially representing pana-like concepts, the triangle shape representing colors, and the incorporation of luka (the hand radical) representing manual actions. Other proposed radicals may be coincidental or questionably meaningful, such as acknowledgments of shared glyph "etymologies". For example, markers of non-declarative sentences have been analyzed as having a punctuation stem radical, but perhaps it is more direct to say that these glyphs are each based on Latin punctuation.

This set of radicals is based on the list from sona pona as well as the Wakalito input method for Sitelen Pona.

Sources

“Radicals.” sona pona. <https://sona.pona.la/wiki/Radicals>. Retrieved 2024-04-11.

“Wakalito.” sona pona. <https://sona.pona.la/wiki/Wakalito>. Retrieved 2024-04-11.


F1C80  SITELEN PONA RADICAL ARROW
F1C81  SITELEN PONA RADICAL ARROWHEAD
F1C82  SITELEN PONA RADICAL LEFTWARDS OR DOWNWARDS ARROWHEAD
F1C83  SITELEN PONA RADICAL UPWARDS OR RIGHTWARDS ARROWHEAD
F1C84  SITELEN PONA RADICAL CLOSED BOX
F1C85  SITELEN PONA RADICAL OPEN BOX
F1C86  SITELEN PONA RADICAL LEFT OPEN BOX
F1C87  SITELEN PONA RADICAL RIGHT OPEN BOX
F1C88  SITELEN PONA RADICAL CIRCLE
F1C89  SITELEN PONA RADICAL SEMICIRCLE
F1C8A  SITELEN PONA RADICAL CROSS
F1C8B  SITELEN PONA RADICAL DOT
F1C8C  SITELEN PONA RADICAL DOUBLE DOT
F1C8D  SITELEN PONA RADICAL EMITTERS
F1C8E  SITELEN PONA RADICAL BOX OR CROSSHAIR
F1C8F  SITELEN PONA RADICAL HAMMER
F1C90  SITELEN PONA RADICAL HAND
F1C91  SITELEN PONA RADICAL POINTING HAND
F1C92  SITELEN PONA RADICAL HEART
F1C93  SITELEN PONA RADICAL FROWNING MOUTH
F1C94  SITELEN PONA RADICAL SMILING MOUTH
F1C95  SITELEN PONA RADICAL OPEN MOUTH
F1C96  SITELEN PONA RADICAL OPEN TRIANGLE
F1C97  SITELEN PONA RADICAL CLOSED TRIANGLE
F1C98  SITELEN PONA RADICAL WAVY LINE
F1C99  SITELEN PONA RADICAL VERTICAL LINE
F1C9A  SITELEN PONA RADICAL HORIZONTAL LINE
F1C9B  SITELEN PONA RADICAL EXCLAMATION LINE
F1C9C  SITELEN PONA RADICAL COMMA
F1C9D  (This position shall not be used)
F1C9E  (This position shall not be used)
F1C9F  (This position shall not be used)