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.
Odd that the ‘head’ is mirrored. The real kanji is 骨。agree it looks like a lil skeleton guy though.
Am I loosing it?
It looks the same. Not mirrored at all
Here is an example of stroke order, showing the phone kanji is backwards.
https://jitenon.com/kanji/骨
Thank you! I couldn’t work out how it was backwards when every version I saw of it looked the same.
No, they’re tightening it.
Losing*, ironically. 😜
Weird, both versions seem to exist.
Wiktionary
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
Fascinating, thanks!
Google translate shows the character backwards, for some reason.
Seems simplified Chinese uses that version. But Kanji is Japanese.
Japanese: 骨
Simplified: 骨
This is what I see.
Try ⾻ (ideograph U+2FBB) vs. 骨 (CJK “bone” used in Asian Typography, different Asian fonts may show differently).
screenshot table from Wikitionary
Probably a Japanese or Korean font. 過 probably shows up on the right as well for you.
Samsung phone, would make sense.
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Weird, on my phone the character rendered like it is in the picture