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Frame 61: Stubborn - Dagur - 2008-10-02
Hi,
I've noticed that the kanji for stubborn 頑 is not the same on the left of the page and in the order-of-writing bit (notice how the "beginning" is different).
Is this a mistake or does it not matter?
Frame 61: Stubborn - gruikya - 2008-10-02
Many radicals slightly change shapes depending on their position. It is no mistake, and it matters if you wish to be able to write the kanji correctly, but I don't think you need to concern yourself too much about remembering the exact shape: it will generally stick without much effort. A bit of caution, though: radicals, when changing shapes, sometimes change stroke count and stroke order! Heisig generally doesn't go into much detail about those different stroke orders; you may have to look at the animated stroke diagrams on wwwjdic to check those.