乐

Related characters

 * ( of  乐 )

Glyph origin
Unorthodox variant found in a  copy of 《嶺南逸事》. First attested in 《》, a dictionary compiled in 1930 that records unorthodox forms  that have existed since the. Also found as a  of  in 《中國書法大字典》.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956.