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戶 (top stroke connects to left stroke, as found in the historical Kangxi dictionary) - used in Taiwan and South Korea.
戸 (top stroke is a horizontal line that does not connect to other strokes) - used in Japan.
户 (top stroke is a slanting dot) - used in mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

It originally depicted a door or a gate of a house.
戶 is a pictogram representing one side of a door. While 門 (문) refers to double doors, 戶 specifically denotes a single door. In ancient Chinese housing, entrances to yards or tombs typically had double doors (門), whereas buildings or smaller entrances within the grounds often had single doors (戶).

#55 — to hold up with both hands

#56 — a stake, a wooden post

#57 — bow (for shooting arrows)

#58 — pig head/snout

#59 — hair

#60 — to walk a little, to take small steps

#61 — heart, mind, center, core

#62 — dagger-axe, spear (an ancient Chinese weapon similar to a halberd)

#63 — door, house number, house, home

#64 — hand

#65 — to support, to bear, to sustain, to calculate, to branch off

#66 — to hit, strike

#67 — script, writing, letter

#68 — measuring vessel, horse

#69 — axe

#70 — square, direction

#71 — none, not exist

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戶

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