I say bring back the circles and unique shapes 
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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 
Seems it can also mean “soy beans soaked and mashed to a creamy paste (ingredient of tofu and soy milk)”
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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 
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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… 
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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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瓦⠀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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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.
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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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Yeah, I should say I’ve never seen it in the wild. I’ve seen it from entries for regular くじ.
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Right now is 孑 – mosquito wriggler.Got it suddenly while using drawing in Jisho. Now I know that this line needs to be perpendicular to the barb, lol.
By the way, it is used in pretty cool word 孑然 (【ケツゼン】 isolated, alone, helpless ), will try to use it from time to time.
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