It's a matter of the font size. At the size they're usually displayed, the characters look quite different [1] [2]. The real problem is that there's no way to m

It's a matter of the font size. At the size they're usually displayed, the characters look quite different [1] [2]. The real problem is that there's no way to mark a character as Chinese or Japanese on HN. So if it actually was the same character it would've been displayed identically. A common character that looks very different in Japanese and Chinese is 直 [3] and there's only one Unicode codepoint for it. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AF%8F https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AF%8F [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AF%8E https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AF%8E [3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9B%B4 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9B%B4