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I found out about this from what appears to be a Japanese calligrapher on
YouTube. He says it's a historic version of 恋, but the only evidence of it
being historical I found was from a blog with little to no information about
it. Where can I find out more about this character?
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What's this kanji with circles?
Surprisingly, it seems there’s some credit to the story. According to the
Goo辞典, the old version of 恋 is 戀 and that one does [have the variant you are
showing](http://en.glyphwiki.org/wiki/u6200).

Here it is in the Ministry of Justice [family register character
database](http://houmukyoku.moj.go.jp/KOSEKIMOJIDB/M01.html):

[![enter image description
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You can see that the “proper” character (正字) is 戀
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