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.)
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
誤。 I always see a little alien in the 呉 part. Weirdly cute kanji for me
Wanikani calls your “alien” catapult 
Seems it can also mean “soy beans soaked and mashed to a creamy paste (ingredient of tofu and soy milk)”
My screen is cracked (actually kinda broken not applying it is on something) so i thought you wrote 日 twice 
The first one looks like the possible skeletal frame of stabby durtle 
Loving this thread and Leebo’s thread too! Learned a lot today. 
This is not the weirdest but… 児 makes me feel like a computer glitch added a | and shifted 日 to the right… 
What about 旧 ?!
Oh yeah, definitely! Makes my left eye blink every time I see a word with 児 in it.
臼 always looks like a broken 日 to me.
Similarly the old form of 児 is 兒
Confusingly, 臼 is not the old form of 旧, 舊 is
瓦⠀looks really weird to me, looks like someone’s attempt at making a fake Kanji
TIL from the Kanken thread that 干 and 于 are different characters!
鬮 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.
Yeah, and usually くじ is 籤 in kanji. I have seen 籤 used in advertisements for lotteries. Never seen 鬮 though.
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
Yeah, I should say I’ve never seen it in the wild. I’ve seen it from entries for regular くじ.
