What is this kanji ? Looks like 七 three times


Tonight I went to a sushi restaurant. It's called かね喜{き} as is visible on
their inkan and in the company name.

However, on their [website](http://sushi-kaneki.co.jp/) it seems calligraphied
differently but maybe I am just bad at identifying handwriting.

Even more strange is the sign there that does not look like 喜 at all.
According to the website it seems to be the way the sushi bar of the chain are
called, but that does not help with why it is written this way.

![Sushi sign with weird kanji](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BMvIY.png)

Can anyone help me ? I have looked around in my phone (Aedict) on on Weblio,
to no avail.

Thanks a lot !




That is the [草書体]{そうしょたい} (= "cursive script") for the kanji 「喜」, meaning
"happiness", "delight", etc.

[http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?rkf=2&ei=UTF-8&p=%E5%96%9C+%E8%8D%89%E6%9B%B8%E4%BD%93](http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?rkf=2&ei=UTF-8&p=%E5%96%9C+%E8%8D%89%E6%9B%B8%E4%BD%93)

This is the reason that one's 77th birthday is called 「[喜寿]{きじゅ}」.

More technically speaking, though, it is the "re-block-ized" and stylized form
of the original cursive script for 「喜」. The original cursive is shown at top
left of the web page above.




That is the [草書体]{そうしょたい} (= "cursive script") for the kanji 「喜」, meaning
"happiness", "delight", etc.

[http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?rkf=2&ei=UTF-8&p=%E5%96%9C+%E8%8D%89%E6%9B%B8%E4%BD%93](http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?rkf=2&ei=UTF-8&p=%E5%96%9C+%E8%8D%89%E6%9B%B8%E4%BD%93)

This is the reason that one's 77th birthday is called 「[喜寿]{きじゅ}」.

More technically speaking, though, it is the "re-block-ized" and stylized form
of the original cursive script for 「喜」. The original cursive is shown at top
left of the web page above.

