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What's with the difference between font and writing of 令?

What's with the difference between font and writing of 令? - Lemmy.World

This character, 令 looks one way in text/font, and in my RTK book. But Jisho [https://jisho.org/search/%E4%BB%A4%20%23kanji] has a little animation that shows stroke order, and the bottom element here looks completely different in that hand-written version. Still two strokes, but a different resulting shape. The same applies to other kanji that build from it, like 冷, 零, etc. What’s the story? Is one or the other source wrong, has the character been updated to a new form, or do I just have wrong fonts?

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Loek van Kooten, MA 1d ago

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Loek van Kooten, MA 2d ago

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