卫

Related characters

 * ( of 卫, preferred form in Taiwan)
 * (Orthodox form in, preferred form in Hong Kong)
 * ( of 衛 found in 《中文大辭典》 )

Glyph origin
This character is not known to have existed prior to the simplification of Chinese characters by the People's Republic of China in 1956.

The simplification of to  may have been influenced by the Japanese katakana, compare the Japanese ryakuji.

In 《中文大辭典》, a dictionary based on the Japanese  and published in Taiwan from 1962 to 1968,, a character which is visually similar to  ( on top instead of ), is recorded as an unorthodox variant of.

Another theory is that is a variant of, which is the top component of  in the middle of.