I've recently gotten into translating fancomics for a manga, although I'm
still a beginner at Japanese. Naturally, I don't really know my kanji and I
have to rely on a lot of looking up radical and kanji lists or using OCR (the
few times it works). In one of those fancomics, I've encountered a kanji that
I've been unable to recognise successfully for a few days now. Here's a pic of
the kanji in question.

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

If I'm not mistaken the top-left radical is 广 and I tried to search based on
that (as well as other similar radicals in case I _am_ mistaken). I also tried
to look based on the furigana at the left (or at least I think it's furigana)
that based on other instances of the artist's handwriting, I took to be に.
However, with either of those methods I couldn't find any kanji that seemed to
fit the image well enough nor any that seemed to make any sense meaning-wise
(though I will admit I could have been missing something as my Japanese is
beginner level, after all). For the context of where the kanji appeared, I
have this:

告白する相手を間違えてませんか ("Haven't you made a mistake about whom to confess to?" as per
my translation) (?)では ないですね The two latter lines are different speech bubbles,
but I suspect they might be a single sentence.

If someone can recognise the kanji, I'd grateful for the help, but I'd also
appreciate tips on how I might go about this kind of research more efficiently
myself. After all, it's very possible I'll come up this problem again in the
future and I can't always rely on others.

In any case, thanks in advance for any help.
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kanji handwriting
Any help recognising a handwritten kanji?
The character is「嘘」.

Assuming that you've identified the _furigana_ correctly, I can't think of a
word where「嘘」has a reading「に」. However, I also think that _furigana_ are
usually written on the right, not on the left as specified in the question.

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I guess this is a question of character decomposition:

  * 「嘘{きょ・こ}」is made from

    * Semantic「口」( _mouth_ , referring to some action by the mouth)

    * Phonetic「虚{きょ・こ}」(referring to the _on'yomi_ ), which is made from

      * **Phonetic「虍{こ}」** (not「广」). As reinforcement,「虍{こ}」is also the phonetic of 「虎{こ}」.
      * Semantic「丘」( _large hill mound_ ), now appearing as「业」inside the character「虚」in Japanese _Shinjitai_.「虚」originally meant _large mound_ , but this is not relevant to the modern meaning.
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