Is the 強い with a ロ instead of ム on top a valid kanji in Japanese?


I don't know how to intentionally write the kanji that way, but on my ubuntu
system 強い sometimes gets rendered that way.

What I'd like to know first if it's incorrect or if it's some rare but still
valid way to write it. I went through all the kanji in my jisho that featured
弓 but none of them matched the weird tsuyoi.

Secondly I'd be interested in if anyone had any explanation for why it's
rendered like this?

My personal guess is that it has something to do with the fonts or something.




The kanji with ム
([強](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/5F37/index.htm)) and the
kanji with 口
([强](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/5F3A/index.htm)) are two
forms of the same kanji. In Japanese, the two forms were used interchangeably
before the [kanji reform in
1946](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji). After the 1946 kanji
reform, the form with ム is the standard form of the kanji and the form with 口
is used only in limited circumstances such as family names.

I think that the [simplified
Chinese](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters) uses the
form with 口 rather than the form with ム.

> What I'd like to know first [is] if it's incorrect or if it's some rare but
> still valid way to write it.

Whether it is “valid” or “incorrect” depends on your stance, but it is a
nonstandard form according to the current standard of kanji characters in
Japanese.

> Secondly I'd be interested in if anyone had any explanation for why it's
> rendered like this?

“How to set up a computer to use Japanese” is off topic on this website. I
suspect that you are using a Chinese font, and I am not sure.




The kanji with ム
([強](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/5F37/index.htm)) and the
kanji with 口
([强](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/5F3A/index.htm)) are two
forms of the same kanji. In Japanese, the two forms were used interchangeably
before the [kanji reform in
1946](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji). After the 1946 kanji
reform, the form with ム is the standard form of the kanji and the form with 口
is used only in limited circumstances such as family names.

I think that the [simplified
Chinese](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters) uses the
form with 口 rather than the form with ム.

> What I'd like to know first [is] if it's incorrect or if it's some rare but
> still valid way to write it.

Whether it is “valid” or “incorrect” depends on your stance, but it is a
nonstandard form according to the current standard of kanji characters in
Japanese.

> Secondly I'd be interested in if anyone had any explanation for why it's
> rendered like this?

“How to set up a computer to use Japanese” is off topic on this website. I
suspect that you are using a Chinese font, and I am not sure.

