What's your favorite Kanji and WHY?

so what is your favourite kanji and why?

so lets start! my favorite kanji is 桜 because its so easy to remember and just really beautiful :slight_smile:

also my new favorite kanji is 花火 as it sounds so happy!! its like… fireworks hanabi… whoahhh!!

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This one always makes me happy, looks like this happy little fella is going for a walk. (However, the bf thinks it looks like a shower head, and now I cannot unsee it).

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I don’t know, it’s just so cute and sweet. I always think of Legolas when I see this one c:

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It’s easy.

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Simply because it’s supposedly the Kanji with the highest number of strokes. have fun writing that.

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Because it’s actually sort of based on an actual heart.

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Eh, those ones that just combine one kanji a bunch of times to make something like that aren’t that interesting to me. It’s just this (龍) 4 times.

For a kanji that has a ton of strokes that you’ll actually learn here, I like

Aesthetically, I like kanji that include 心, and I am particularly fond of 志, not just because it includes that, but because of the meaning and because it has a nice long kunyomi reading.

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In China, at some point they used 占占点 as a secret way of googling for the Tiananmen Square massacre because it looks like a tank running over little people…

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Probably 金 or 玉 because money and sports, no relation. Definitely not testicle jokes

Being a tad more serious, it’s probably 王 since I like the whole connection between heaven, man, and earth. It was hearing about that that made me less apprehensive about learning Chinese/Japanese characters in the first place.

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I can’t really explain why I like it so much, but I find the shape of it alluring, seductive even. O_O it’s quite mesmerizing.

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I’ve always like 水 and 虫 a lot.

One, I like water (absolutely love swimming). Two I’ve always just thought 水 looked pretty and elegant.
And I don’t know why, but I’ve always thought 虫 looked cute and sounded cute: むし.

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Really like writing 語
夢 I think this one is quite lovely.
傘 And this one is so cute it actually looks like an umbrella.

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Fine, a more serious answer is 雨 or 花. There’s just something about the simplicity that I like.

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Well wanted to type it in the rules not to say 一 but i didn’t think that anyone may say that and deleted it ;/
and here you are ;d

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#処

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I like 寒 and 心 ^^

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Well kokoro is too one of my favourite ones :slight_smile:

I forgot to say why …they look nice? >x<

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Not really 愛, but 恋 in my 心 is already OK.

夢 is also nice. Also, 炎.

BTW, I like 龍.

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:wink:

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