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1 Reply ・ Started by Streiker at 2018-08-13 21:43:43 UTC ・ Last reply by Leebo at 2018-08-15 04:51:01 UTC

Kanji, type versus handwritten

Why is the type form of the kanji for jurisdiction, 領, so different from the handwritten form? This is also true for the same radical in cold, 冷. In both, the seal radical looks like this: マ.

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Leebo at 2018-08-15 04:51:01 UTC

Well, I mean, you say "so different," but it's just a matter of where the strokes make contact with each other.

It's not unusual for fonts to vary from handwriting. Within Japanese, there are also a handful of kana that are different in fonts and writing, like き and さ, which tend to have the bottom hook shape disconnected in handwriting.

Even in English, I've never seen anyone write the curly g that has a closed loop at the bottom that you see in fonts. But plenty of fonts use it.

Generally speaking you can write either form of the ones you mentioned on something like the Kanji Kentei and they would be accepted.

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