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A comment on Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016). Parent comment

Re:Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016) by gfaure on Saturday November 11, 2017 @07:18PM (#15678958)
> ソ comes from the Chinese character 會

ソ comes from 曾 ("once, at one point") not 會. Yes, those are different characters.

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Re:Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016) by gurkendoktor on Sunday November 12, 2017 @05:18AM (#15680385)
It gets worse. 曾 and 會 in your comment look clearly distinct to me in Safari, but if I check with Firefox, they suddenly look very similar.

The trick is that 曾 is sometimes written with 八 as its "roof", which makes it look like 會, and sometimes with 丷, depending on your font. (Similar to 兑 and 兌 in the article)

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