Is there a list of the symbols shown in “The Matrix”(the symbols rain)? How many are they?What is the...
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Is there a list of the symbols shown in “The Matrix”(the symbols rain)? How many are they?
What is the digital rain seen in The Matrix universe made of?Other than Neo Stopping the Machine Weapons, Are There Clues the Real World is Another Matrix?Besides the Agents what else was there actively looking for people in the Matrix?How does an outsider's dead body continue to exist in The Matrix?How did Neo know it was Morpheus on the phone and what The Matrix is?Is there good canon evidence for the “Nightmare Matrix”?Do we know how the Matrix started?Are animals in the matrix real or programs?How did those first freed from the Matrix survive?How does Neo see unplugged humans in the Matrix?How did the operators not notice the code change when Smith assimilated Bane?
Is there a list of the symbols shown in "The Matrix" when operators do they work watching it? How many are they? What are their names? Which ones didn't exist by the time the movie was shot?
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Is there a list of the symbols shown in "The Matrix" when operators do they work watching it? How many are they? What are their names? Which ones didn't exist by the time the movie was shot?
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Looks like this question would be highly relevant... don't think it's a duplicate though.
– Radhil
Aug 9 '16 at 18:45
Mmm, it didn´t appear another one when I was typing. Let us see in a few time.
– Feuergeist
Aug 9 '16 at 18:48
dafont.com/matrix-code-nfi.font
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:35
@Radhil - No. With the edit it's not a dupe, although my answer does speak to what the "rain" is made up of in terms of characters.
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:42
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Since you seem particularly insistent on getting a full list of the characters that were used, I have to ask: why? What are you trying to do that the existing answer is insufficient for?
– Mike Kellogg
Aug 12 '16 at 22:15
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Is there a list of the symbols shown in "The Matrix" when operators do they work watching it? How many are they? What are their names? Which ones didn't exist by the time the movie was shot?
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Is there a list of the symbols shown in "The Matrix" when operators do they work watching it? How many are they? What are their names? Which ones didn't exist by the time the movie was shot?
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Looks like this question would be highly relevant... don't think it's a duplicate though.
– Radhil
Aug 9 '16 at 18:45
Mmm, it didn´t appear another one when I was typing. Let us see in a few time.
– Feuergeist
Aug 9 '16 at 18:48
dafont.com/matrix-code-nfi.font
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:35
@Radhil - No. With the edit it's not a dupe, although my answer does speak to what the "rain" is made up of in terms of characters.
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:42
2
Since you seem particularly insistent on getting a full list of the characters that were used, I have to ask: why? What are you trying to do that the existing answer is insufficient for?
– Mike Kellogg
Aug 12 '16 at 22:15
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show 1 more comment
8
Looks like this question would be highly relevant... don't think it's a duplicate though.
– Radhil
Aug 9 '16 at 18:45
Mmm, it didn´t appear another one when I was typing. Let us see in a few time.
– Feuergeist
Aug 9 '16 at 18:48
dafont.com/matrix-code-nfi.font
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:35
@Radhil - No. With the edit it's not a dupe, although my answer does speak to what the "rain" is made up of in terms of characters.
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:42
2
Since you seem particularly insistent on getting a full list of the characters that were used, I have to ask: why? What are you trying to do that the existing answer is insufficient for?
– Mike Kellogg
Aug 12 '16 at 22:15
8
8
Looks like this question would be highly relevant... don't think it's a duplicate though.
– Radhil
Aug 9 '16 at 18:45
Looks like this question would be highly relevant... don't think it's a duplicate though.
– Radhil
Aug 9 '16 at 18:45
Mmm, it didn´t appear another one when I was typing. Let us see in a few time.
– Feuergeist
Aug 9 '16 at 18:48
Mmm, it didn´t appear another one when I was typing. Let us see in a few time.
– Feuergeist
Aug 9 '16 at 18:48
dafont.com/matrix-code-nfi.font
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:35
dafont.com/matrix-code-nfi.font
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:35
@Radhil - No. With the edit it's not a dupe, although my answer does speak to what the "rain" is made up of in terms of characters.
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:42
@Radhil - No. With the edit it's not a dupe, although my answer does speak to what the "rain" is made up of in terms of characters.
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:42
2
2
Since you seem particularly insistent on getting a full list of the characters that were used, I have to ask: why? What are you trying to do that the existing answer is insufficient for?
– Mike Kellogg
Aug 12 '16 at 22:15
Since you seem particularly insistent on getting a full list of the characters that were used, I have to ask: why? What are you trying to do that the existing answer is insufficient for?
– Mike Kellogg
Aug 12 '16 at 22:15
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As explained in the answer to this closely related question, all of those symbols are "real" characters, they've just been flipped horizontally to mirror images of themselves. If you look at a still image flipped back, it's easier to tell:
The top is from the movie, the bottom is the same shot mirrored left-to-right. You can tell that many of the symbols are just normal Latin alphabet digits, letters, and symbols. The rest are Japanese characters (mostly half-width katakana, though there's at least one kanji in there as well). None of them were created specifically for the movie.
6
feel free to write your own answer with all of their names.
– KutuluMike
Aug 9 '16 at 19:25
4
Katakana, not kanji. They don't really have "names" separate from their values, no more than the letters of the Latin alphabet have names.
– duskwuff
Aug 9 '16 at 19:26
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@Feuergeist you have got to be kidding me... just look at a katakana chart And, if there are kanji in there (Mike's right that there's at least one), there are potentially thousands of kanji if you were to freeze frame every single iteration from the film. Limited lists are one thing... this list is too big. This answer seems perfectly acceptable.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 19:58
1
@Feuergeist Yes... Thousands. See this question on Japanese Language. Even if you only consider the most commonly used ones, there are over 2K. Also, if you don't speak Japanese, figuring out which ones are used can be very difficult. They have character dictionaries but "naming" each of them will be... complex.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 20:12
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What I believe you are missing is the fact that it will be a terrible answer. The answer will be a list of the letters of two alphabets and the Arabic digits. Listing them all out, e.g. "LETTER A. LETTER B. LETTER C. LETTER D. LETTER E." is just a huge waste of space.
– KutuluMike
Aug 13 '16 at 0:38
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So I was curious myself so watched the opening of the first film frame by frame in mirror mode and noted down what I saw. That being the case there is probably some missing.
Notably, there is no 6 and the only Kanji I found is 日 (roughly meaning day/sun). The only roman letter is Z until the title appears in which case letters in "THE MATRIX" appear. Most of the symbols are Katakana, however they are not uniformly distributed. Some appear very frequently while others are completely absent.
Identifiable symbols (all are mirror versions unless noted)
- Kanji: "日"
- Katakana: "ハミヒーウシナモニサワツオリアホテマケメエカキムユラセネスタヌヘ"
- Missing Katakana: "ヲイクコソチトノフヤヨルレロン" (at least I couldn't find them)
- Numbers: "012345789", "3" is upside down, "4" has underscore, "7" is not mirrored
- Roman: "Z" only, then "THEMATRIX" for the title.
- Punctuation/Arithmetic: ":・."=*+-<>"
- Other: "¦|" and dashed underscore (╌ but lower down)
- Unknown: Somethine like ç and something like リ but with an overbar (might be ク).
In total that's around 67 characters.
Additional Kanji - I also see the kanji 二 (meaning two) often in the opening title sequence. Katakana - I see the additional following: コ (backwards) ソ (backwards), and what appears to be a slightly stylized ヤ (backwards)
– Matt S
Jul 13 '18 at 18:11
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These are mostly known characters, but they are flipped (mirrored). They include Arabic digits, Latin letters, punctuation/math/etc characters, Kanji and halfwidth Katakana.
Here you are, a list (I believe it's 100% full) from analyzing the code rain in opening scene (0:30-0:37) and dream scene:
ARABIC DIGITS
- mirrored: 2, 5, 9, 8 (two identical circles – hard to tell if mirrored)
- not mirrored: 1, 7 (without the line crossing through the middle), 0 (a "slashed zero" form), 3 (a "flat-topped three" form, upside down), 4 (a "closed top four" form, with underscore, but see )
- *) there is no 6
LATIN LETTERS (NOT MIRRORED)
- Z (sans-serif)
- *) +(letters AEHIMRTX at the end of intro forming "THE MATRIX", but it's clearly visible that they were added to the video after generating the code rain because they misalign, glow brighter, are thinner and have serif font-face)
PUNCTUATION/MATH/ETC.
(symmetrical, so no sense saying if mirrored)
- :."=*+-¦|_
- [space] (I assume so; sometimes there is an empty place in a column and one could treat that as blank place, not [space] generated; but sometimes it really appears in a sequence in spots where the symbols change frequently)
- ╌ (← "double dash horizontal" but low, on the bottom line, like underscore; I haven't found such glyph in Unicode table and online)
- *) there's no dot in the middle of the text line (・/∙/•/etc.) (as Annan stated) – it's rather normal full stop [.], because it's on the bottom
(MOST OF) HALF-WIDTH KATAKANA (MIRRORED) (in order of appearance in Unicode table)
- ヲアウエオカキケコサシスセソタツテナニヌネハヒホマミムメモヤユラリワ
- missing ones: イクチトノフヘヨルレロン
- *) Annan said that character [ヘ] is present in code – I believe he was wrong; I think he must've seen a fragment of another character during appearing (they appear not each at once but each unhiding from top to bottom)
- **) what's interesting – [ウオケ] are with overscore, [ネホヤ] are with underscore; I think this is somewhat because of emulating technical problems of old screens; just like the underscore in digit [4]
KANJI
- 日
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As explained in the answer to this closely related question, all of those symbols are "real" characters, they've just been flipped horizontally to mirror images of themselves. If you look at a still image flipped back, it's easier to tell:
The top is from the movie, the bottom is the same shot mirrored left-to-right. You can tell that many of the symbols are just normal Latin alphabet digits, letters, and symbols. The rest are Japanese characters (mostly half-width katakana, though there's at least one kanji in there as well). None of them were created specifically for the movie.
6
feel free to write your own answer with all of their names.
– KutuluMike
Aug 9 '16 at 19:25
4
Katakana, not kanji. They don't really have "names" separate from their values, no more than the letters of the Latin alphabet have names.
– duskwuff
Aug 9 '16 at 19:26
5
@Feuergeist you have got to be kidding me... just look at a katakana chart And, if there are kanji in there (Mike's right that there's at least one), there are potentially thousands of kanji if you were to freeze frame every single iteration from the film. Limited lists are one thing... this list is too big. This answer seems perfectly acceptable.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 19:58
1
@Feuergeist Yes... Thousands. See this question on Japanese Language. Even if you only consider the most commonly used ones, there are over 2K. Also, if you don't speak Japanese, figuring out which ones are used can be very difficult. They have character dictionaries but "naming" each of them will be... complex.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 20:12
2
What I believe you are missing is the fact that it will be a terrible answer. The answer will be a list of the letters of two alphabets and the Arabic digits. Listing them all out, e.g. "LETTER A. LETTER B. LETTER C. LETTER D. LETTER E." is just a huge waste of space.
– KutuluMike
Aug 13 '16 at 0:38
|
show 6 more comments
As explained in the answer to this closely related question, all of those symbols are "real" characters, they've just been flipped horizontally to mirror images of themselves. If you look at a still image flipped back, it's easier to tell:
The top is from the movie, the bottom is the same shot mirrored left-to-right. You can tell that many of the symbols are just normal Latin alphabet digits, letters, and symbols. The rest are Japanese characters (mostly half-width katakana, though there's at least one kanji in there as well). None of them were created specifically for the movie.
6
feel free to write your own answer with all of their names.
– KutuluMike
Aug 9 '16 at 19:25
4
Katakana, not kanji. They don't really have "names" separate from their values, no more than the letters of the Latin alphabet have names.
– duskwuff
Aug 9 '16 at 19:26
5
@Feuergeist you have got to be kidding me... just look at a katakana chart And, if there are kanji in there (Mike's right that there's at least one), there are potentially thousands of kanji if you were to freeze frame every single iteration from the film. Limited lists are one thing... this list is too big. This answer seems perfectly acceptable.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 19:58
1
@Feuergeist Yes... Thousands. See this question on Japanese Language. Even if you only consider the most commonly used ones, there are over 2K. Also, if you don't speak Japanese, figuring out which ones are used can be very difficult. They have character dictionaries but "naming" each of them will be... complex.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 20:12
2
What I believe you are missing is the fact that it will be a terrible answer. The answer will be a list of the letters of two alphabets and the Arabic digits. Listing them all out, e.g. "LETTER A. LETTER B. LETTER C. LETTER D. LETTER E." is just a huge waste of space.
– KutuluMike
Aug 13 '16 at 0:38
|
show 6 more comments
As explained in the answer to this closely related question, all of those symbols are "real" characters, they've just been flipped horizontally to mirror images of themselves. If you look at a still image flipped back, it's easier to tell:
The top is from the movie, the bottom is the same shot mirrored left-to-right. You can tell that many of the symbols are just normal Latin alphabet digits, letters, and symbols. The rest are Japanese characters (mostly half-width katakana, though there's at least one kanji in there as well). None of them were created specifically for the movie.
As explained in the answer to this closely related question, all of those symbols are "real" characters, they've just been flipped horizontally to mirror images of themselves. If you look at a still image flipped back, it's easier to tell:
The top is from the movie, the bottom is the same shot mirrored left-to-right. You can tell that many of the symbols are just normal Latin alphabet digits, letters, and symbols. The rest are Japanese characters (mostly half-width katakana, though there's at least one kanji in there as well). None of them were created specifically for the movie.
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feel free to write your own answer with all of their names.
– KutuluMike
Aug 9 '16 at 19:25
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Katakana, not kanji. They don't really have "names" separate from their values, no more than the letters of the Latin alphabet have names.
– duskwuff
Aug 9 '16 at 19:26
5
@Feuergeist you have got to be kidding me... just look at a katakana chart And, if there are kanji in there (Mike's right that there's at least one), there are potentially thousands of kanji if you were to freeze frame every single iteration from the film. Limited lists are one thing... this list is too big. This answer seems perfectly acceptable.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 19:58
1
@Feuergeist Yes... Thousands. See this question on Japanese Language. Even if you only consider the most commonly used ones, there are over 2K. Also, if you don't speak Japanese, figuring out which ones are used can be very difficult. They have character dictionaries but "naming" each of them will be... complex.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 20:12
2
What I believe you are missing is the fact that it will be a terrible answer. The answer will be a list of the letters of two alphabets and the Arabic digits. Listing them all out, e.g. "LETTER A. LETTER B. LETTER C. LETTER D. LETTER E." is just a huge waste of space.
– KutuluMike
Aug 13 '16 at 0:38
|
show 6 more comments
6
feel free to write your own answer with all of their names.
– KutuluMike
Aug 9 '16 at 19:25
4
Katakana, not kanji. They don't really have "names" separate from their values, no more than the letters of the Latin alphabet have names.
– duskwuff
Aug 9 '16 at 19:26
5
@Feuergeist you have got to be kidding me... just look at a katakana chart And, if there are kanji in there (Mike's right that there's at least one), there are potentially thousands of kanji if you were to freeze frame every single iteration from the film. Limited lists are one thing... this list is too big. This answer seems perfectly acceptable.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 19:58
1
@Feuergeist Yes... Thousands. See this question on Japanese Language. Even if you only consider the most commonly used ones, there are over 2K. Also, if you don't speak Japanese, figuring out which ones are used can be very difficult. They have character dictionaries but "naming" each of them will be... complex.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 20:12
2
What I believe you are missing is the fact that it will be a terrible answer. The answer will be a list of the letters of two alphabets and the Arabic digits. Listing them all out, e.g. "LETTER A. LETTER B. LETTER C. LETTER D. LETTER E." is just a huge waste of space.
– KutuluMike
Aug 13 '16 at 0:38
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6
feel free to write your own answer with all of their names.
– KutuluMike
Aug 9 '16 at 19:25
feel free to write your own answer with all of their names.
– KutuluMike
Aug 9 '16 at 19:25
4
4
Katakana, not kanji. They don't really have "names" separate from their values, no more than the letters of the Latin alphabet have names.
– duskwuff
Aug 9 '16 at 19:26
Katakana, not kanji. They don't really have "names" separate from their values, no more than the letters of the Latin alphabet have names.
– duskwuff
Aug 9 '16 at 19:26
5
5
@Feuergeist you have got to be kidding me... just look at a katakana chart And, if there are kanji in there (Mike's right that there's at least one), there are potentially thousands of kanji if you were to freeze frame every single iteration from the film. Limited lists are one thing... this list is too big. This answer seems perfectly acceptable.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 19:58
@Feuergeist you have got to be kidding me... just look at a katakana chart And, if there are kanji in there (Mike's right that there's at least one), there are potentially thousands of kanji if you were to freeze frame every single iteration from the film. Limited lists are one thing... this list is too big. This answer seems perfectly acceptable.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 19:58
1
1
@Feuergeist Yes... Thousands. See this question on Japanese Language. Even if you only consider the most commonly used ones, there are over 2K. Also, if you don't speak Japanese, figuring out which ones are used can be very difficult. They have character dictionaries but "naming" each of them will be... complex.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 20:12
@Feuergeist Yes... Thousands. See this question on Japanese Language. Even if you only consider the most commonly used ones, there are over 2K. Also, if you don't speak Japanese, figuring out which ones are used can be very difficult. They have character dictionaries but "naming" each of them will be... complex.
– Catija♦
Aug 9 '16 at 20:12
2
2
What I believe you are missing is the fact that it will be a terrible answer. The answer will be a list of the letters of two alphabets and the Arabic digits. Listing them all out, e.g. "LETTER A. LETTER B. LETTER C. LETTER D. LETTER E." is just a huge waste of space.
– KutuluMike
Aug 13 '16 at 0:38
What I believe you are missing is the fact that it will be a terrible answer. The answer will be a list of the letters of two alphabets and the Arabic digits. Listing them all out, e.g. "LETTER A. LETTER B. LETTER C. LETTER D. LETTER E." is just a huge waste of space.
– KutuluMike
Aug 13 '16 at 0:38
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So I was curious myself so watched the opening of the first film frame by frame in mirror mode and noted down what I saw. That being the case there is probably some missing.
Notably, there is no 6 and the only Kanji I found is 日 (roughly meaning day/sun). The only roman letter is Z until the title appears in which case letters in "THE MATRIX" appear. Most of the symbols are Katakana, however they are not uniformly distributed. Some appear very frequently while others are completely absent.
Identifiable symbols (all are mirror versions unless noted)
- Kanji: "日"
- Katakana: "ハミヒーウシナモニサワツオリアホテマケメエカキムユラセネスタヌヘ"
- Missing Katakana: "ヲイクコソチトノフヤヨルレロン" (at least I couldn't find them)
- Numbers: "012345789", "3" is upside down, "4" has underscore, "7" is not mirrored
- Roman: "Z" only, then "THEMATRIX" for the title.
- Punctuation/Arithmetic: ":・."=*+-<>"
- Other: "¦|" and dashed underscore (╌ but lower down)
- Unknown: Somethine like ç and something like リ but with an overbar (might be ク).
In total that's around 67 characters.
Additional Kanji - I also see the kanji 二 (meaning two) often in the opening title sequence. Katakana - I see the additional following: コ (backwards) ソ (backwards), and what appears to be a slightly stylized ヤ (backwards)
– Matt S
Jul 13 '18 at 18:11
add a comment |
So I was curious myself so watched the opening of the first film frame by frame in mirror mode and noted down what I saw. That being the case there is probably some missing.
Notably, there is no 6 and the only Kanji I found is 日 (roughly meaning day/sun). The only roman letter is Z until the title appears in which case letters in "THE MATRIX" appear. Most of the symbols are Katakana, however they are not uniformly distributed. Some appear very frequently while others are completely absent.
Identifiable symbols (all are mirror versions unless noted)
- Kanji: "日"
- Katakana: "ハミヒーウシナモニサワツオリアホテマケメエカキムユラセネスタヌヘ"
- Missing Katakana: "ヲイクコソチトノフヤヨルレロン" (at least I couldn't find them)
- Numbers: "012345789", "3" is upside down, "4" has underscore, "7" is not mirrored
- Roman: "Z" only, then "THEMATRIX" for the title.
- Punctuation/Arithmetic: ":・."=*+-<>"
- Other: "¦|" and dashed underscore (╌ but lower down)
- Unknown: Somethine like ç and something like リ but with an overbar (might be ク).
In total that's around 67 characters.
Additional Kanji - I also see the kanji 二 (meaning two) often in the opening title sequence. Katakana - I see the additional following: コ (backwards) ソ (backwards), and what appears to be a slightly stylized ヤ (backwards)
– Matt S
Jul 13 '18 at 18:11
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So I was curious myself so watched the opening of the first film frame by frame in mirror mode and noted down what I saw. That being the case there is probably some missing.
Notably, there is no 6 and the only Kanji I found is 日 (roughly meaning day/sun). The only roman letter is Z until the title appears in which case letters in "THE MATRIX" appear. Most of the symbols are Katakana, however they are not uniformly distributed. Some appear very frequently while others are completely absent.
Identifiable symbols (all are mirror versions unless noted)
- Kanji: "日"
- Katakana: "ハミヒーウシナモニサワツオリアホテマケメエカキムユラセネスタヌヘ"
- Missing Katakana: "ヲイクコソチトノフヤヨルレロン" (at least I couldn't find them)
- Numbers: "012345789", "3" is upside down, "4" has underscore, "7" is not mirrored
- Roman: "Z" only, then "THEMATRIX" for the title.
- Punctuation/Arithmetic: ":・."=*+-<>"
- Other: "¦|" and dashed underscore (╌ but lower down)
- Unknown: Somethine like ç and something like リ but with an overbar (might be ク).
In total that's around 67 characters.
So I was curious myself so watched the opening of the first film frame by frame in mirror mode and noted down what I saw. That being the case there is probably some missing.
Notably, there is no 6 and the only Kanji I found is 日 (roughly meaning day/sun). The only roman letter is Z until the title appears in which case letters in "THE MATRIX" appear. Most of the symbols are Katakana, however they are not uniformly distributed. Some appear very frequently while others are completely absent.
Identifiable symbols (all are mirror versions unless noted)
- Kanji: "日"
- Katakana: "ハミヒーウシナモニサワツオリアホテマケメエカキムユラセネスタヌヘ"
- Missing Katakana: "ヲイクコソチトノフヤヨルレロン" (at least I couldn't find them)
- Numbers: "012345789", "3" is upside down, "4" has underscore, "7" is not mirrored
- Roman: "Z" only, then "THEMATRIX" for the title.
- Punctuation/Arithmetic: ":・."=*+-<>"
- Other: "¦|" and dashed underscore (╌ but lower down)
- Unknown: Somethine like ç and something like リ but with an overbar (might be ク).
In total that's around 67 characters.
answered Mar 4 '18 at 17:30
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Additional Kanji - I also see the kanji 二 (meaning two) often in the opening title sequence. Katakana - I see the additional following: コ (backwards) ソ (backwards), and what appears to be a slightly stylized ヤ (backwards)
– Matt S
Jul 13 '18 at 18:11
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Additional Kanji - I also see the kanji 二 (meaning two) often in the opening title sequence. Katakana - I see the additional following: コ (backwards) ソ (backwards), and what appears to be a slightly stylized ヤ (backwards)
– Matt S
Jul 13 '18 at 18:11
Additional Kanji - I also see the kanji 二 (meaning two) often in the opening title sequence. Katakana - I see the additional following: コ (backwards) ソ (backwards), and what appears to be a slightly stylized ヤ (backwards)
– Matt S
Jul 13 '18 at 18:11
Additional Kanji - I also see the kanji 二 (meaning two) often in the opening title sequence. Katakana - I see the additional following: コ (backwards) ソ (backwards), and what appears to be a slightly stylized ヤ (backwards)
– Matt S
Jul 13 '18 at 18:11
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These are mostly known characters, but they are flipped (mirrored). They include Arabic digits, Latin letters, punctuation/math/etc characters, Kanji and halfwidth Katakana.
Here you are, a list (I believe it's 100% full) from analyzing the code rain in opening scene (0:30-0:37) and dream scene:
ARABIC DIGITS
- mirrored: 2, 5, 9, 8 (two identical circles – hard to tell if mirrored)
- not mirrored: 1, 7 (without the line crossing through the middle), 0 (a "slashed zero" form), 3 (a "flat-topped three" form, upside down), 4 (a "closed top four" form, with underscore, but see )
- *) there is no 6
LATIN LETTERS (NOT MIRRORED)
- Z (sans-serif)
- *) +(letters AEHIMRTX at the end of intro forming "THE MATRIX", but it's clearly visible that they were added to the video after generating the code rain because they misalign, glow brighter, are thinner and have serif font-face)
PUNCTUATION/MATH/ETC.
(symmetrical, so no sense saying if mirrored)
- :."=*+-¦|_
- [space] (I assume so; sometimes there is an empty place in a column and one could treat that as blank place, not [space] generated; but sometimes it really appears in a sequence in spots where the symbols change frequently)
- ╌ (← "double dash horizontal" but low, on the bottom line, like underscore; I haven't found such glyph in Unicode table and online)
- *) there's no dot in the middle of the text line (・/∙/•/etc.) (as Annan stated) – it's rather normal full stop [.], because it's on the bottom
(MOST OF) HALF-WIDTH KATAKANA (MIRRORED) (in order of appearance in Unicode table)
- ヲアウエオカキケコサシスセソタツテナニヌネハヒホマミムメモヤユラリワ
- missing ones: イクチトノフヘヨルレロン
- *) Annan said that character [ヘ] is present in code – I believe he was wrong; I think he must've seen a fragment of another character during appearing (they appear not each at once but each unhiding from top to bottom)
- **) what's interesting – [ウオケ] are with overscore, [ネホヤ] are with underscore; I think this is somewhat because of emulating technical problems of old screens; just like the underscore in digit [4]
KANJI
- 日
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These are mostly known characters, but they are flipped (mirrored). They include Arabic digits, Latin letters, punctuation/math/etc characters, Kanji and halfwidth Katakana.
Here you are, a list (I believe it's 100% full) from analyzing the code rain in opening scene (0:30-0:37) and dream scene:
ARABIC DIGITS
- mirrored: 2, 5, 9, 8 (two identical circles – hard to tell if mirrored)
- not mirrored: 1, 7 (without the line crossing through the middle), 0 (a "slashed zero" form), 3 (a "flat-topped three" form, upside down), 4 (a "closed top four" form, with underscore, but see )
- *) there is no 6
LATIN LETTERS (NOT MIRRORED)
- Z (sans-serif)
- *) +(letters AEHIMRTX at the end of intro forming "THE MATRIX", but it's clearly visible that they were added to the video after generating the code rain because they misalign, glow brighter, are thinner and have serif font-face)
PUNCTUATION/MATH/ETC.
(symmetrical, so no sense saying if mirrored)
- :."=*+-¦|_
- [space] (I assume so; sometimes there is an empty place in a column and one could treat that as blank place, not [space] generated; but sometimes it really appears in a sequence in spots where the symbols change frequently)
- ╌ (← "double dash horizontal" but low, on the bottom line, like underscore; I haven't found such glyph in Unicode table and online)
- *) there's no dot in the middle of the text line (・/∙/•/etc.) (as Annan stated) – it's rather normal full stop [.], because it's on the bottom
(MOST OF) HALF-WIDTH KATAKANA (MIRRORED) (in order of appearance in Unicode table)
- ヲアウエオカキケコサシスセソタツテナニヌネハヒホマミムメモヤユラリワ
- missing ones: イクチトノフヘヨルレロン
- *) Annan said that character [ヘ] is present in code – I believe he was wrong; I think he must've seen a fragment of another character during appearing (they appear not each at once but each unhiding from top to bottom)
- **) what's interesting – [ウオケ] are with overscore, [ネホヤ] are with underscore; I think this is somewhat because of emulating technical problems of old screens; just like the underscore in digit [4]
KANJI
- 日
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These are mostly known characters, but they are flipped (mirrored). They include Arabic digits, Latin letters, punctuation/math/etc characters, Kanji and halfwidth Katakana.
Here you are, a list (I believe it's 100% full) from analyzing the code rain in opening scene (0:30-0:37) and dream scene:
ARABIC DIGITS
- mirrored: 2, 5, 9, 8 (two identical circles – hard to tell if mirrored)
- not mirrored: 1, 7 (without the line crossing through the middle), 0 (a "slashed zero" form), 3 (a "flat-topped three" form, upside down), 4 (a "closed top four" form, with underscore, but see )
- *) there is no 6
LATIN LETTERS (NOT MIRRORED)
- Z (sans-serif)
- *) +(letters AEHIMRTX at the end of intro forming "THE MATRIX", but it's clearly visible that they were added to the video after generating the code rain because they misalign, glow brighter, are thinner and have serif font-face)
PUNCTUATION/MATH/ETC.
(symmetrical, so no sense saying if mirrored)
- :."=*+-¦|_
- [space] (I assume so; sometimes there is an empty place in a column and one could treat that as blank place, not [space] generated; but sometimes it really appears in a sequence in spots where the symbols change frequently)
- ╌ (← "double dash horizontal" but low, on the bottom line, like underscore; I haven't found such glyph in Unicode table and online)
- *) there's no dot in the middle of the text line (・/∙/•/etc.) (as Annan stated) – it's rather normal full stop [.], because it's on the bottom
(MOST OF) HALF-WIDTH KATAKANA (MIRRORED) (in order of appearance in Unicode table)
- ヲアウエオカキケコサシスセソタツテナニヌネハヒホマミムメモヤユラリワ
- missing ones: イクチトノフヘヨルレロン
- *) Annan said that character [ヘ] is present in code – I believe he was wrong; I think he must've seen a fragment of another character during appearing (they appear not each at once but each unhiding from top to bottom)
- **) what's interesting – [ウオケ] are with overscore, [ネホヤ] are with underscore; I think this is somewhat because of emulating technical problems of old screens; just like the underscore in digit [4]
KANJI
- 日
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These are mostly known characters, but they are flipped (mirrored). They include Arabic digits, Latin letters, punctuation/math/etc characters, Kanji and halfwidth Katakana.
Here you are, a list (I believe it's 100% full) from analyzing the code rain in opening scene (0:30-0:37) and dream scene:
ARABIC DIGITS
- mirrored: 2, 5, 9, 8 (two identical circles – hard to tell if mirrored)
- not mirrored: 1, 7 (without the line crossing through the middle), 0 (a "slashed zero" form), 3 (a "flat-topped three" form, upside down), 4 (a "closed top four" form, with underscore, but see )
- *) there is no 6
LATIN LETTERS (NOT MIRRORED)
- Z (sans-serif)
- *) +(letters AEHIMRTX at the end of intro forming "THE MATRIX", but it's clearly visible that they were added to the video after generating the code rain because they misalign, glow brighter, are thinner and have serif font-face)
PUNCTUATION/MATH/ETC.
(symmetrical, so no sense saying if mirrored)
- :."=*+-¦|_
- [space] (I assume so; sometimes there is an empty place in a column and one could treat that as blank place, not [space] generated; but sometimes it really appears in a sequence in spots where the symbols change frequently)
- ╌ (← "double dash horizontal" but low, on the bottom line, like underscore; I haven't found such glyph in Unicode table and online)
- *) there's no dot in the middle of the text line (・/∙/•/etc.) (as Annan stated) – it's rather normal full stop [.], because it's on the bottom
(MOST OF) HALF-WIDTH KATAKANA (MIRRORED) (in order of appearance in Unicode table)
- ヲアウエオカキケコサシスセソタツテナニヌネハヒホマミムメモヤユラリワ
- missing ones: イクチトノフヘヨルレロン
- *) Annan said that character [ヘ] is present in code – I believe he was wrong; I think he must've seen a fragment of another character during appearing (they appear not each at once but each unhiding from top to bottom)
- **) what's interesting – [ウオケ] are with overscore, [ネホヤ] are with underscore; I think this is somewhat because of emulating technical problems of old screens; just like the underscore in digit [4]
KANJI
- 日
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Looks like this question would be highly relevant... don't think it's a duplicate though.
– Radhil
Aug 9 '16 at 18:45
Mmm, it didn´t appear another one when I was typing. Let us see in a few time.
– Feuergeist
Aug 9 '16 at 18:48
dafont.com/matrix-code-nfi.font
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:35
@Radhil - No. With the edit it's not a dupe, although my answer does speak to what the "rain" is made up of in terms of characters.
– Valorum
Aug 9 '16 at 19:42
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Since you seem particularly insistent on getting a full list of the characters that were used, I have to ask: why? What are you trying to do that the existing answer is insufficient for?
– Mike Kellogg
Aug 12 '16 at 22:15