Another kanji riddle!

[keatonatron]

Actually, the bottom part of the right half of 様 is different from 水, because 水 is four strokes, whereas that part of 様 is five (the left part is divided into two strokes, the second of which is written bottom-to-top). But yeah, it still certainly doesn't look like that.

- Kef

Like 求!

I've always written 様 like 水 (with one continuous vertical line, of course)... Doubt anyone has noticed. Writing that one stroke bottom-to-top sounds like a chore

[Yudan Taiteki]

Actually, the bottom part of the right half of 様 is different from 水, because 水 is four strokes, whereas that part of 様 is five (the left part is divided into two strokes, the second of which is written bottom-to-top). But yeah, it still certainly doesn't look like that.

- Kef

Like 求!

I've always written 様 like 水 (with one continuous vertical line, of course)... Doubt anyone has noticed. Writing that one stroke bottom-to-top sounds like a chore

I write the right part of 様 as 5 strokes, but it's hard to explain the strokes without actually drawing it out. The ki-hen is only 3 or sometimes 2; I'm glad that other people don't have to read my notes.

(求 is 4 strokes or 3)

[becki_kanou]

Before I embarrass myself further, did you see Becki's guess?

We have a winner!!!

わいわい！ I only got it because of Garappachiさん's hint.

[jcdietz03]

Well I am just now learning to write the kanji, so I actually write all the strokes.
Call me crazy.

木 - Four stroke element - written w/ 3 strokes here
羊 - Six stroke element - written w/ 3 strokes here
米 - Five stroke element written w/ one long flowing stroke!?

Are all the strokes actually there? Am I missing something?

[nukemarine]

Well I am just now learning to write the kanji, so I actually write all the strokes.
Call me crazy.

木 - Four stroke element - written w/ 3 strokes here
羊 - Six stroke element - written w/ 3 strokes here
米 - Five stroke element written w/ one long flowing stroke!?

Are all the strokes actually there? Am I missing something?

You should check out the simplified Hanzi characters. It's unnatural I tell you.

[Garappachi]

This is another grass script of 様 that is most common, but I have seen that image keatonatron さん gave a few times before as a おっさん style.
We can see other ones of 教育漢字（around 1000 basic kanji） here. Have fun!

加納<b>様</b>、鋭い直感力！
「怪」答を期待されていたkeatonatron さん。横槍を入れるような真似をして、申し訳ないことをしました。

[furrykef]

The difference is, you can compare the grass script version to the print version and understand where the hell the grass script one comes from.

(Well, maybe not the one on the bottom left, but even that one's not a big leap from the one on the right.)