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Originally Posted by Nameless
There are some kanji that bug me, I'll use the example of 海 which mostly is written like this http://kaimm.files.wordpress.com/200...anji.gif?w=500
However, there are some fonts that use : 母 (without a change) in it instead, my question is, how much do these differences matter? are some deprecated and other contemporary?
sorry, I don't know how to google it -.- |
Old vs. New.
The bottom part of
「毎」 used to be written as
「母」 ; therefore,
「海」 was written with a
「母」 . If you used that old style of
「海」 in school or business in Japan, you would surely be corrected because that is not how the kanji appears in textbooks (or newspapers, magazines, legal papers, etc.).
However, if you used it in a form of artistic expression like calligraphy, you would just look cool.