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This is cute (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

Odd that the 'head' is mirrored. The real kanji is 骨。agree it looks like a lil skeleton guy though.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Am I loosing it?

    It looks the same. Not mirrored at all

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's a Unicode CJK variant. There are a bunch of characters that Unicode considers to be the same character but with small regional differences (e.g. how it's written in Mainland China vs. Taiwan vs. Japan vs. Korea, etc.). Since the region isn't encoded in the character, you're seeing whatever your system locale and font default to. For web pages, you can specify the region inside the HTML or HTTP headers and hopefully you get the correct character rendering, but that also requires you to have a font installed that includes the variant.

    https://www.typotheque.com/articles/understanding-cjk-regional-character-variants

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Google translate shows the character backwards, for some reason.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Seems simplified Chinese uses that version. But Kanji is Japanese.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Japanese: 骨

    Simplified: 骨

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Try ⾻ (ideograph U+2FBB) vs. 骨 (CJK "bone" used in Asian Typography, different Asian fonts may show differently).

    screenshot table from Wikitionary

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