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I have inherited a pair of Chinese cufflinks, probably from Hong Kong, that features characters that I cannot find in any dictionary, no matter how hard I try. 

 

They aren't very complicated, perhaps somebody here can recognize them? 

 

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Thank you in advance!

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Thank you very much!

 

Why would the cufflink character have a vertical stroke through the right upper part of the 福 character?  

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Thank you!

 

Why would the cufflink character of 福 have a vertical stroke through the upper right part of the character? Is it a handwriting feature?

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It's not an extra stroke, it's the first stroke of the tiny square, but it's extended. They've done the same thing in the lower half of the other character. Probably a style thing.

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It may be more than just style. If those characters are first formed then somehow fixed to the cufflink plate, then they'd best be formed as a single unit, othewise you'd have to separately form and fix that single stroke.

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