Nailbat + triceratops + ground + mouth + rice paddy?

[Naphthalene]

What the? You did not post there. How is that a thing?

Anyway, here it is:

Ghost Kanji

I just read and thought I’d share a fascinating article about kanji that we don’t have to learn because they don’t exist in the real world. They only exist in the Japanese computer encoding system (JIS) because of … mistakes. In any case, it’s a fascinating short article. An interesting aside in the article is that there’s a reference work that lists all the administrative districts within Japan that’s seven volumes and roughly 9000 pages each, and buried within them are some pretty unusual k…