Super Difficult Chinese Characters
By thomas on Oct 27, 2007 in Writing Systems
Asian Offbeat has an interesting article about some of the most difficult Chinese characters. These characters were found in a Qing dynasty dictionary. Here are a few of them:
Flying Squirrel
Exorcism
Thunder
Wow. That last one has 128 strokes.
You can read more about these and others at the original article here (found via a Japan Probe link to Yin Yang Report). In the meantime, I’m off to the city to get a cool “flying thunder squirrel” tattoo on my arm.
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Whoa, what the?… The exorcism one is quite impressive, but I don’t quite understand the need for such big characters for the other ones.
Rmss | Oct 28, 2007 | Reply
Oh no, my toypography doesn’t have these characters!
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/great-japanese-educational-toy-toypography-from-dainippon-type/
:P
rico | Oct 29, 2007 | Reply
Rmss: None of these characters are in modern use. Someone was just digging in a really old dictionary and found these.
Rico: Oh no, your link broke my css :). Those toypography puzzles are way too expensive.
thomas | Oct 30, 2007 | Reply