Monday, May 21, 2018

kanji - Difference between 類 and 類


What is the difference between 類 (unicode: 985e) and 類 (unicode: f9d0)?


They look virtually identical (at least as rendered by my computer). Rikaichan says that the former has 18 strokes and the latter 19 but I count 19 in both (rice (6)+ dog (4)+ page (9)). On Wiktionary the latter redirects to the page for the former.



Answer




類 = 米 + 大 + 頁
類 = 米 + 犬 + 頁



Naturally, 犬 has one more stroke than 大, so that 類 has one more stroke than 類.



The latter is a (常用外) variant of the former (but, as snailboat points out, is listed as 旧字体 variant in the 常用漢字表). The variant is also contained in the 人名用漢字 list.


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