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Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name by Freak_NL on Monday April 01, 2019 @06:53AM (#19542069)
The confusion probably stems from the way it is written in the calligraphic representation of 令和 presented by the government, which does do the same vertical stroke as in print.

In normal handwriting マ is totally fine and common.

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Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name by SECProto on Monday April 01, 2019 @01:15PM (#19545611)
Yep, exactly! Certainly no expert on Japanese, just the only place I saw it written with the マ shape was my android device and jisho, so I assumed it was an error. Learned a new kanji today anyway!
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