alternate kanji also translates to sensei but literally means anicent sage or confucius it translates to sensei it s pronounced that way but it translates into english at any rate as ancient sage and usually refers to confucius but it has absolutely nothing to do with the word covered by this article and the kanji are not alternates for the coincidence of pronunciation is just that a coincidence nothing more nothing less i'm only asking if the kanji i listed is a archic version of the current kanji used plus confucius was a teacher so it can't be said mere coincidence suite yourself but is not an archaic version of and the coincidence of pronunciation is just that this is not at all a rare phenomenon in japanese in fact it is the chinese that you should be tracking down whether and are pronounced the same in chinese i do not know in any case if you introduce into the article your assumption about the two character strings being related or variant spellings of the same word you will have to substantiate the assertion with a reliable source as per wp att all other discussion is irrelevant to wikipedia and does not belong here