Can't find kanji for pictured characters


I've tried finding the kanji by radical
[here](https://kanji.sljfaq.org/radicals.html) using 广 but I can't find a
match for the first and I'm not sure at all what the second is.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GrMJN.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GrMJN.png)




Looks like 魔女{まじょ} 'witch' to me.

My electronic dictionary shows a few forms for 魔 that might help a little:

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/611UP.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/611UP.jpg)

See how in each successive version the strokes become more connected, and
there are fewer strokes total? The character in your image isn't the same as
these, but similarly the strokes are more connected and the total number is
somewhat reduced.

I think that the 林 portion is simplified with the last two strokes of each 木
together as one stroke, and then strokes 15 and 16 are connected (you can
barely see stroke 16 but it's there where the pen curls back around and
crosses itself). Strokes 20 and 21 can possibly be considered to be part of
the last stroke, although it looks like they're entirely gone.

In 女, the top of the second stroke sometimes crosses the third horizontal
stroke:

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fuqhp.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fuqhp.png)
>
> (image taken from the
> [常用漢字表](http://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/sisaku/joho/joho/kijun/naikaku/pdf/joyokanjihyo_20101130.pdf))

Anyway, when I look at it my brain sees 魔女{まじょ}. My brain wants it to be the
imperative form of a verb with せ, but if there is a verb like that I've failed
to read it :-)




Looks like 魔女{まじょ} 'witch' to me.

My electronic dictionary shows a few forms for 魔 that might help a little:

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/611UP.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/611UP.jpg)

See how in each successive version the strokes become more connected, and
there are fewer strokes total? The character in your image isn't the same as
these, but similarly the strokes are more connected and the total number is
somewhat reduced.

I think that the 林 portion is simplified with the last two strokes of each 木
together as one stroke, and then strokes 15 and 16 are connected (you can
barely see stroke 16 but it's there where the pen curls back around and
crosses itself). Strokes 20 and 21 can possibly be considered to be part of
the last stroke, although it looks like they're entirely gone.

In 女, the top of the second stroke sometimes crosses the third horizontal
stroke:

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fuqhp.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fuqhp.png)
>
> (image taken from the
> [常用漢字表](http://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/sisaku/joho/joho/kijun/naikaku/pdf/joyokanjihyo_20101130.pdf))

Anyway, when I look at it my brain sees 魔女{まじょ}. My brain wants it to be the
imperative form of a verb with せ, but if there is a verb like that I've failed
to read it :-)

