86443
Good day, I've just noticed that the kanji 誤, while displayed almost
everywhere that way, when pasted in my Anki deck, suddenly changes into (see
picture below)[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cwOdH.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cwOdH.png)

I can't get it to display anywhere else like that, when displayed on the card
itself during review it's also displayed like 誤. And the sites which recognize
kanji by writing strokes don't seem to know the second writing. Can someone
shed some light why Windows IME decides to insert a different writing for this
particular case.
CC BY-SA 4.0
2021-05-02T10:03:14.077
86442
2021-05-02T12:24:52.190
43778
question
kanji orthography writing-identification
Different writing of the kanji 誤?
The cause is most likely that your font setting (of a program or OS) have gone
wrong. As far as I can see the said character in the input box looks rendered
with a Chinese font.

The glyph you see and the intended Japanese one share the same meaning and the
same code point in Unicode ([Han
unification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification)). Thus computers
cannot tell which is which binary-wise, and it is a font's responsibility to
render it correctly according to the locale.
[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%AA%A4) usually provides useful
information regarding regional variants.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3oapR.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3oapR.png)

Of course, it does not mean that those shapes are interchangeable, and you
will be deemed miswritten if you write it in the first form in Japan. You will
have to change the font somehow, but how to actually fix it can be only
explained on a case-by-case basis (and I'm not sure it's in the scope of this
site).

**PS**  
The effect of Han unification is not always logically consistent, as it had to
deal with backward compatibility with existing standards in each country. For
example, the right side component alone 呉 is separately encoded for all China,
Taiwan/Korea, and Japan standard variations, so you wouldn't be caught in the
same situation simply by font corruption.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tNNQH.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tNNQH.png)
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mJqaz.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mJqaz.png)
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6U9k2.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6U9k2.png)
CC BY-SA 4.0
2021-05-02T11:25:54.603
86443
2021-05-02T12:24:52.190
2021-05-02T12:24:52.190
7810
7810
86442
answer