This is my take on what could be considered the hardest kanji. Obviously the ‘difficulty’ of a kanji is completely subjective but I thought I’d go with the angle of, which has the most strokes. Certainly found some interesting characters during my research. Really makes you feel like reaching lvl 6…

This was really entertaining, thank you! My understanding was that kanji are always supposed to be ‘balanced’, so that each kanji in a piece of writing fills the same amount of space. The really complex ones look completely impossible to fit into a standard box size, even the ones that don’t just c…

[image] Radish8: The really complex ones look completely impossible to fit into a standard box size, even the ones that don’t just contain repeats… I guess that’s why you never see them aha. Those kind of kanji are very rare and pretty much only exist in dictionaries. I can’t imagine what co…

Ah, ok, that makes more sense! I was imagining a weird kanji bulging out of the lines, or just reduced to a solid blob of ink :joy: I wonder if some of them were originally just a joke…!

Perhaps the creation process of new kanji will shed some light on this question…! https://japaneselevelup.com/creating-new-kanji-today/ :slight_smile:

Hangover is absolute genius. Balance and curfew are also pretty damn funny.

Fun fact: the spelling “Japan” comes from Marco Polo’s Italian rendition of the Shanghainese rendition of 日本.

And here I thought I can now face head-on every kanji… but this really overwhelmed me physically and emotionally.

JulzShred: Obviously the ‘difficulty’ of a kanji is completely subjective but I thought I’d go with the angle of, which has the most strokes. Except that’s absolutely not a good way to do it, this video is a combination of saying “F” is a harder letter than “I” or that þ is the hardest Engli…

Sorry for not watching the video before commenting, but yeah, stroke count doesn’t seem like a good metric for determining a character’s “difficulty” since, as we all know, the strokes aren’t random. There are patterns, and once you know the patterns, even something like the one Syphus posted can be…

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KantanJapan March 5, 2018, 10:56am 3

I guess that’s why you never see them aha. Those kind of kanji are very rare and pretty much only exist in dictionaries.

I can’t imagine what compelled someone to create them originally though…

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