I usually do my reviews on my mac and on the iOS app, but today I was doing them on a linux machine. I stumbled completely on this radical because it felt like I hadn’t seen it before. No wonder, since it looked completely different on my mac. I’ve noticed some small font differences that sometimes …

The bottom one is the one you’ll see in JP texts, I think the top one is the Chinese font version of the characterとか Example screenshot from WK: [image]

[image] morteasd: I’ve noticed some small font differences that sometimes threw me off but nothing this radical kanji. I’m sorry. It’s stupid but I couldn’t resist.

I’m dying here :rofl::rofl::rofl:

There is a similar variation in Japanese depending on the font. Here are four Japanese fonts I have on my computer: [image] @morteasd I highly recommend installing the Jitai script, which will show different fonts during reviews. You just have to have the fonts installed on your computer. For iO…

For what it’s worth, my pocket kanji book seems to list both as acceptable handwritten variants. [image]

Aye, that’s how the kanji is hand-written. It’s certainly not merely the Chinese version.

I have never handwritten 令 as it appears in print. By hand I only write the Chinese version.

Oooh, what’s the book called?

Think about it this way. The two letters below are clearly different, but still they are the same, right? [image] Kanji (and hiragana) are the same. For most characters you may have a standard for what “should” be written nowadays, but now and then there is a character that managed to preserve mul…

[image] SyncroPC: Kanji (and hiragana) are the same. For most characters you may have a standard for what “should” be written nowadays, but now and then there is a character that managed to preserve multiple styles until now. 糸 is also clearly different depending on the font and writting style. …

The kanji 令

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The kanji 令

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