掲示板 Forums - confused about 飴 kanji

As for fonts this is one of 168 kanji for which the recommended renderings changed in 2004 (see Wikipedia and Kakijun).

E. g. iOS has very few modern Japanese fonts and when you look up this kanji on renshuu with iOS/macOS you get two different (font) renderings:

It would be nice of course if the number of strokes were consistent with the stroke order diagrams ;-)

The issue seems to be caused by the charcter for (found in the quote above)

I was able to delete my post, too. Then I started a new post and funny things happened. But now I guess I just didn't see the edit/delete icons because my browser window wasn't wide enough (and the post was strangely formatted). So I'll try again with the image ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jōyō_kanji#c... reads

The 5 kanji 餌・遡・遜・謎・餅 use one of the radicals 辶 / . As stated on the first page of the official Jōyō Kanji list, although the officially correct form of those characters uses the forms: 辶 / , it is permissible to use instead the forms 辶 / 飠, which are indicated in square brackets in the official list.

So while 飠 is the modern version, the correct one is ?

BTW: renshuu (still) seems to be based on the 1981 jōyō kanji list. E. g. there is no information about the school level of the readings for these kanji. Does anybody know an online resource for this classification for the current jōyō kanji list? (The readings are included in 常用漢字表 mentioned above but not the level.)

@マイコー I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. But if you want to make the number of strokes consistent with the stroke order diagram you only have to count the number of strokes and I'm sure you already did that when you created the stroke order diagrams. Different number of stroke counts are likely to exist if there are more than two svg files for the same character, e. g.

• 098f4-Hyougai.svg
• 098f4-HyougaiKaisho.svg
• 098f4.svg

With xml file you mean kanjivg-20160426.xml.gz? I'm not sure if this file really contains the variants.

As for the number of kanji that have variants with different numbers of strokes, I scanned the data in kanjivg-20160426-all.zip and found the following 79 kanji:

05026, 050c5, 05132, 0514e, 0537f, 053a9, 053df, 05618, 0564c, 05835, 05a29, 05c60, 05fbd, 0633d, 06357, 06372, 06666, 06840, 0685d, 0698a, 06994, 069cc, 06a0b, 06adb, 06b4e, 06c72, 06c9b, 06f23, 07015, 0701e, 07026, 07058, 07149, 071d0, 0724c, 0727d, 07511, 078d4, 07941, 07947, 079b0, 07a17, 07a7f, 07b08, 07bb8, 07c2a, 07e4b, 0817f, 08258, 083b1, 0845b, 084ec, 085af, 085f7, 08755, 08836, 08877, 08956, 08b0e, 08ced, 08fbb, 08fbf, 08fc2, 08fc4, 08fe6, 09017, 09019, 09022, 0903c, 09041, 0905c, 09061, 091a4, 0939a, 09453, 098f4, 09905, 0990c, 09957