Stroke count for jinmei version of 07259 (牙・きば)

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Stephen Kraus

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Dec 21, 2023, 7:20:39 PM12/21/23
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Hi all

The current SVG file for the 人名用漢字 version of 牙 (07259-Jinmei.svg) contains 4 strokes and is pretty visually similar to the standard version. This seems to be a mistake.

There might be an official 人名用漢字 document somewhere that specifies the exact stroke count for each character, but I could not find it after a brief search. However, the extra stroke is mentioned in the entry for きば【牙】 in 明鏡国語辞典 ("Meikyo") and also on the Japanese version of Wiktionary.

Meikyo: 『常用漢字表では、一画多い「」も同字とする。』
Wiktionary:  『新字体: 4画、朝鮮: 5画

The Wiktionary page will display the Jinmei version of the character correctly only if you have a Korean font available in your browser. For reference, here is an image attachment for both forms of the character (standard and Jinmei, respectively) in Adobe's Source Han Sans font.

07259_source_han.png

Thanks

Stephen Kraus
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