Ghost Kanji

Japanese Language Kanji
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I don’t know what I was expecting from this thread but the second I read the title my mind went “You’re going to sing the Ghost Busters theme now.”
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Aye, I saw that link. I admire his dedication at writing over six hundred pages of pure gibberish. Though, I guess, James Joyce managed it too…

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And there’s the Voynich manuscript, which people have been trying to decipher for a hundred years or so.

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No, we’ve found the answer to that. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I’ll believe it if a find a dodecahedron among the dicotyledons.

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And it works too! 妛!

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I want it on level 61

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@Sezme (haters will say it’s fake)

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That’s one neat word processor! Get one of those and you become the ultimate hipster.

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Wait, what. How does it get an 異体字. That does not make any sense!
妛 does not come out with any of the 訓読み provided either :stuck_out_tongue:
Where does that come from, by the way? (And what were they smoking?)

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I second this. Level 61 needs to be fake kanji only.

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I thought you were joking, but you’re actually right. I can replicate this with my IME. The ghost kanji can be found in position 141, but it’s actually there! 妛

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EDIT: Can someone here who has a 電子辞書 attempt inputting a ghost kanji using handwriting recognition or radical search and tell us whether it can be found? I’m curious…

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This is fantastic… I love it.

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Mine finds it but says

「𡚴」の誤字とされる

Which is true. It gives the same readings and meaning as 𡚴 otherwise.

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“𡚴” is considered a misprint

Right? Well, that’s quite true, considering many ghost kanji were a result of misprints. Does it say the same thing for the rest of them?

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挧 gives me

姓の一つ。
[日本] 地名に用いられる字。「挧谷（とちだに・とったに）」は福井県の地名。※栩谷とも。

栩 is the correct kanji. It does not say that it’s a misprint, though. However, once again, the readings are the ones from the correct kanji, not the ones from unihan

暃 gives me nothing except an on yomi (ヒ)

Same for 椦 (ケン)

So, yeah, I guess they all show up in here one way or another.

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http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1C

Dodecahedral dicotyledons… maybe(?)

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Thank you for sharing. I really love this story!

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…But where do the unihan readings come from?

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The more important question is, did Unihan shoot first?

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I’m starting to get confused. jisho.org give a listing for 𡚴 but no meaning or reading. But for 妛 (the “ghost” version), it gives:
despise, contempt, ugly, same as
Kun: あなど.る、 おろか、 みにく.い、 みだる
On: シ

For 栩, it gives:
type of oak
Kun: くぬぎ
On: ク

But for the “incorrect” 挧, it gives:
Japanese horse chestnut
Kun: とち
On: ウ

Lots of smoking going on. Or maybe it’s just me…

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