(TŌ, fuji; wisteria) [⿱艹ト, 艹+ト {Katakana to}], and (KI; machine, opportunity) [⿰木キ, 木+キ {Katakana ki}]. Adoption of variant characters In some cases a standard character was replaced by a variant character that neither is a graphical variant nor shares an On reading, but had a historical basis for standardisation. Examples include and , replacing and respectively. In both cases the variant character had a different meaning and reading but was adopted due to its lower stroke count anyway. Removal of components Some kanji were simplified by removing entire components. For example, The portion of was removed to become Adding a stroke In five basic cases and six derivations for a total of eleven cases, kanji were modified by adding a stroke, thereby rendering the composition more regular: (, →) – the bottom component becomes the common . However, the character 捗 was not modified (Compare with the section "Inconsistencies"). – similarly () – the bottom becomes () – the top right becomes – formerly the middle stroke was part of the lower left stroke, now these are separate, so the lower two strokes form the common – formerly the small stroke at upper left of was part of the vertical stroke in , but now it is a separate stroke. Inconsistencies Simplification was not carried out uniformly. Firstly, only a select group of characters (the common jōyō kanji) was simplified, with characters outside this group (the hyōgaiji) generally retaining their earlier form. For example, and (with the right-side element in the latter two not being identical, but merely graphically similar) were simplified as , and , respectively, but the hyōgaiji and which contain the same element (), were kept in use in their unsimplified variants. Secondly, even when a simplification was done in some characters within this group, the analogous simplification was not applied to all characters. For instance, the character , meaning "dragon", was simplified in isolation and in some compound characters, but not others. The character itself was simplified to , as was the compound character ("waterfall") → ; however, it was not simplified in the characters ("attack") and ("basket"), although an extended shinjitai variant, , exists for the latter, and is used in practice rather often over the official variant, for instance in vs. ("gauntlet"). Conversely, the character ("pierce") was not simplified, nor was the compound character ("accustomed"), but in the other compound character it was simplified,