What is the weirdest Kanji you have learned?

Japanese Language Questions
#16

tbh, I was just going off the entry in the wiktionary page, but I can see how saying that the pictogram is an abbreviation of the kokuji might be miseading.

Yeah, I guess. Probably because it’s archaic no font designer bothered to make a Mincho version of the thing, but I see things like the digraphs for yori and koto and I wonder.

Given that hiragana and katakana originated as scribal abbreviations like the ones you’re mentioning, it would make sense to discount them along with the rice-box thing from being kanji, I suppose. I really only included it and the tangut thing for interest value.

#17

That made my day :joy:

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#18

Welcome! This is a fun place, with many silly/occasionally brilliant jokes, especially in the Campfire (and serious learning at other sections)

#19

〇 :thinking:

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#20

Good. I’m glad they beat me to it.
I’d also accept O角

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#21

apparently quite a lot of archaic variant kanji have circles in them.

This seems to be a fairly famous example, but there are more.

(I usually hesitate to quote sources like these, but there’s only a few places you can go to to find kanji like those, hah.)

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I say bring back the circles and unique shapes :eyes:

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#23

A pretty common one but 曰 always felt very weird to me. Like it just feels like someone messed up writing 日.

Honorable mentions: 乂, 卜, and maybe 函

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#24

誤。 I always see a little alien in the 呉 part. Weirdly cute kanji for me

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#25

Wanikani calls your “alien” catapult :smiley:

Seems it can also mean “soy beans soaked and mashed to a creamy paste (ingredient of tofu and soy milk)”

:smiley:

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#26

My screen is cracked (actually kinda broken not applying it is on something) so i thought you wrote 日 twice :rofl:

#27

The first one looks like the possible skeletal frame of stabby durtle :sob: :joy: :joy:

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#28

Loving this thread and Leebo’s thread too! Learned a lot today. :slight_smile:

This is not the weirdest but… 児 makes me feel like a computer glitch added a | and shifted 日 to the right… :weary:

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#29

What about 旧 ?!

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#30

Oh yeah, definitely! Makes my left eye blink every time I see a word with 児 in it.

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#31

臼 always looks like a broken 日 to me.
Similarly the old form of 児 is 兒

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#33

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#34

Confusingly, 臼 is not the old form of 旧, 舊 is

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#35

瓦⠀looks really weird to me, looks like someone’s attempt at making a fake Kanji

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