What is the weirdest Kanji you have learned?

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

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

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

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

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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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What about 旧 ?!

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

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

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

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

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TIL from the Kanken thread that 干 and 于 are different characters!

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is kind of weird, because I can’t think of any reason other than liking the way it looks to use this super dense kanji instead of くじ. Especially if you’re handwriting.

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Yeah, and usually くじ is 籤 in kanji. I have seen 籤 used in advertisements for lotteries. Never seen 鬮 though.

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Actually it came up one time while we were doing quizzes. I don’t remember where I learned it initially, but it has come up somewhere before and I added it to my srs deck fwiw

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