Difference between 類 and 類


What is the difference between 類 (unicode: 985e) and 類 (unicode: f9d0)?

They look virtually identical (at least as rendered by my computer). Rikaichan
says that the former has 18 strokes and the latter 19 but I count 19 in both
(rice (6)+ dog (4)+ page (9)). On Wiktionary the latter redirects to the page
for the former.




> 類 = 米 + 大 + 頁  
>  類 = 米 + 犬 + 頁

Naturally, 犬 has one more stroke than 大, so that 類 has one more stroke than 類.

The latter is a (常用外) variant of the former (but, as snailboat points out, is
listed as 旧字体 variant in the 常用漢字表). The variant is also contained in the
人名用漢字 list.




The first contains 大 rather than 犬, hence one less stroke. They both mean
kind/class/type, but I'm not familiar with the second Kanji. Googling it
returns results as if I'd entered the first one.

