Re: [Lingo] Which kanji is correct?

[Nguyễn Vũ Hưng <vuhung16plus@example.com>]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley@example.com> wrote:
>
> In my kanji studies with Heisig's _Remembering the Kanji_ books, i
> recently came across this kanji: 喻

This is the modern "yu".
China and Taiwan use this too.

>
> However, i sometimes see it rendered this way: 喩

This roots back to Kangxi dictionary. IIRC, it even appears in 礼記、論語
more than 2000 years ago.
cf. http://tool.httpcn.com/Html/Zi/22/PWCQRNPWRNUYUYARN.shtml

>
> Unicode has both of those kanji represented. My question is, which is
> actually correct for Japanese?

I think the first one.

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