Hello, please look at the stylization for the candy 飴 kanji. [image] When it’s differently stylized I can’t read it at all and have to relearn it. Does this happen often? Does anyone have some tricks to better retain their knowledge of the kanji, even with different fonts?

I believe in handwriting it is often written like the top version. Because 飴 is a non-Joyo Kanji it was not affected by the official typeset reforms , but modern fonts now sometimes resemble the handwritten style.

The top one is Chinese-style. You’ll want to make sure that you’re not using a Chinese font. That said, some characters do have slightly different shapes when handwritten, so it’s worth learning to recognise them.

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Heiopei: I believe in handwriting it is often written like the top version. Because 飴 is a non-Joyo Kanji it was not affected by the official typeset reforms , but modern fonts now sometimes resemble the handwritten style. Yeah, this is just a case of a character not getting reformed at the s…

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Well, I use Jitai, and Jitai writes the candy kanji like that in some fonts…! I tried reading some kanji handwriting here and there on Netflix/Youtube, and that’s really difficult.

Well, this problem comes from me already using Jitai. I was just wondering if some people have a trick to learn this, instead of just cramming the difference in writing!

It’s not Jitai that writes the kanji. Rather, it’s the decision of the font’s creator to show the kanji like that.

On the grand scheme of things, that’s actually quite a minor change. Try out this thread for some typography examples to compare it to. :slightly_smiling_face:

Oh I see, sorry - I misunderstood. In that case, no! I’m not very good with different fonts in WaniKani, but funnily enough I’ve never found myself missing a kanji while reading and thinking it was specifically because of the font. I wouldn’t use Jitai in a way where you feel like you’re “re-learni…

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Different stylized writing, does this happen a lot?

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