I’ve seen both of these for 飴, one on WaniKani and the other on my phone. Why are they different?
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They’re the same radical, it’s basically just different fonts, from my understanding. It’s like how ‘a’ and ‘ɑ’ can both be used to represent the same letter in English.
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The left image is indicative of how you should hand-write the kanji.
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They are essentially the same thing, but I believe that 飠 is a slightly simplified version of𩙿 (although still qualifying as a Traditional Chinese character), and the one you will more commonly find in Japanese.
You can see an illustration of the development on this page. From the text:
※「飠」は「𩙿」の略字です。
飠 is the simplified form of 𩙿.
𩙿 is a (previously used) old form of 飠.
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This gives a new aspect of difficulty to kanji.
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Darn these youngsters and their newfangled simplifications! Back in my day we used the oracle bone script and we were happy with it!
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Try adding Japanese as a second language on your phone. Might resolve the issue
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I’ve already done so on iOS.
Both still seem to be correct though, so I guess it’s not really an issue.
It changes though. The first one is when Japanese is set as a primary language, and the second one is when it isn’t set as a language (neither primary nor secondary).
The second kanji is another one I noticed changed a little
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Oh yeah, my eyes got really wide and all I could think is how many of these variations will I have to try to remember as I go along on my journey deeper into the thicket of Japanese…
but hey, what doesn’t kill us just adds to our kanji insanity!
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