Spencer Alves [backup]Jul 19, 2017
The longest-named Unicode character is
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"ARABIC LIGATURE UIGHUR KIRGHIZ YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE WITH ALEF MAKSURA ISOLATED FORM" (U+FBF9).
The shortest-named character is
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"OX" (U+1F402)
Show threadSpencer Alves [backup]Jul 19, 2017
The runners-up for longest are U+FBFB and U+FBFA, other forms of that Arabic character. The longest-named non-Arabic character is
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"CLOCKWISE RIGHTWARDS AND LEFTWARDS OPEN CIRCLE ARROWS WITH CIRCLED ONE OVERLAY" (U+1F502)
Show threadSpencer Alves [backup]Jul 19, 2017
On the shorter end, there are too many 3-letter-name characters to list here, but OX is the only 2-letter-name.
Show threadSydney Falk, An Oversensitive SJW TypeJul 19, 2017

@impiaaa

O_o

Bo?
Ra?
Pi?
Oz? (you didn't say PERSON name :P )
Li?

(most of that list is somewhat arguable but I have KNOWN people whose name was 'Bo', not it's-short-for-something "Bo" but 'Bo')

Show threadSpencer Alves [backup]Jul 19, 2017
@sydneyfalk Read the thread please. I'm talking about Unicode character names.
(In terms of person names, I once knew someone with last name O. It screwed with a bunch of systems.)
Show threadSydney Falk, An Oversensitive SJW TypeJul 19, 2017

@impiaaa

blah, I'm a doofus

carry on, my mistake :(

Show threadSpencer Alves [backup]Jul 19, 2017
@sydneyfalk that's ok 🙂 the "thread" indicator is really hard to notice
Show threadSydney Falk, An Oversensitive SJW TypeJul 19, 2017

@impiaaa

the REALLY sad part is that my conscious mind leaped into the fray to respond to the perceived statement ("of human names, only one has two letters") and all it could come up with was "Bo"

that's pathetic, there's gotta be plenty of others that I can't think of

(but in fairness I'm on my first batch of caffeine for the day and JUST took my pills an hour ago (my sleep schedule's been all over the place, don't even ask))

Show threadSpencer Alves [backup]Jul 19, 2017
@sydneyfalk here's some: Al, Ed, Hy, Ji, Jo, No, Po, Ro, Ti
Show threadSydney Falk, An Oversensitive SJW TypeJul 19, 2017

@impiaaa

exactly

and I'm a WRITER

this shouldn't have been hard for me (I have a character in a work-in-progress CALLED Jo, FFS)

Show threadSpencer Alves [backup]Jul 19, 2017
@sydneyfalk and as a writer, you should know that size of one's vocabulary is not indicative of one's writing skills. I looked all of these up in a dictionary (though, oddly, Jo was not in there—it was autocorrected from Ji).
Show threadSpencer Alves [backup]
@sydneyfalk oh, and I also know a Wu, which also wasn't in there. I need to find a better dictionary.
Jul 19, 2017 at 6:37pmAmarok