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CROSSING Kanji is CHANGED!

#1
Since when are there 2 dots in Crossing???

in the book of heisig there is only the one from road!! WHY DOES IT DIFFER FROM THE BOOK?

check the STUDY Page!! 279 :: Crossing!

-Mesqueeb
Edited: 2008-10-31, 4:11 am
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#2
either way is an acceptable form
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#3
2 dots? The only dot I can see, which is more of a line/drop is the one for the start of the "road" character. If you are referring to the bottom line of road also being a dot.. Then that is just the font, not a dot. Depends on how you write it.
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#4
See this thread
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#5
Many radicals have several ways of writing them, the altar on the side can also have two forms, one where it looks like cloak and one where it actually looks like the altar form.
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#6
This kanji has been changed in the latest standard for Japanese fonts (JIS2004). If you're using a recent font (like Microsoft's meiryo that comes with Vista). It will have two dots. There are a few kanji with minor differences. For example, 賭 also gets an extra dot in its JIS2004 version.
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#7
I only see one drop :S
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#8
2 drops here. Is that chinese font thingye again?
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#9
It's not a Chinese font thing. There are just different character variants that are used whether you're using a computer or not.

The way I see it, there are basically 3 different types of kanji variations.
・different kanji
・different components in the same kanji
・different stroke styles in the same kanji

I put together one or two examples with pictures since everyone has different fonts on their computers so you can all see them: Variations in kanji
Edited: 2008-10-31, 7:30 pm
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#10
I think 辻 is written with two dots more often than other kanji with that radical because it's not a Jōyō kanji. The two-dot version used to be the only way to write it (and it's still written that way in Chinese, I think), then the Jōyō kanji list came around and they simplified a few kanji in the process (this was when 龍 became 竜, for instance), including removing a dot from the 辶 radical. All kanji that were not on the Jōyō list were officially left unchanged, including retaining the old forms of radicals. Some people do simplify other characters in the same fashion, but some people do not. I think with computer fonts it's more common to use just one dot for this radical for all kanji, though.

- Kef
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