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A Kanji with the Most Strokes Ever / Hardest Kanji Ever?? - kuria - 2012-07-17
I am really interested in knowing what the hardest japanese kanji is / or most strokes in a kanji is. I have heard pre-WWII kanjis were hard... or there were more kanji then foreign burrow words. The only rule I will apply to this is, [directory word or not] you must be able to write within your computer.
PS: If a thread like this already exit, I couldn't find it. I found something similar... But it was for Chinese and the characters were fake.
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=7043
A Kanji with the Most Strokes Ever / Hardest Kanji Ever?? - loonytik - 2012-07-17
this one perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito_%28kanji%29
Edit: ups didn't read the computer requirement
A Kanji with the Most Strokes Ever / Hardest Kanji Ever?? - Katsuo - 2012-07-17
The hardest kanji in common use is probably 鬱 (29 strokes), which is part of the new joyo kanji set.
The kanji with largest stroke count available on my computer is 䯂 (34 strokes), but structurally it's quite simple as 馬 appears three times.
There are three kanji with 33 strokes, i.e. one less than the maximum, but two of them are more complex: 龗, 灩, 麤.
A Kanji with the Most Strokes Ever / Hardest Kanji Ever?? - kuria - 2012-07-18
Awesome, I haven't seen any of these before. Do you have spellings and meanings? I am not sure if this is correct.
鬱 depression
龗legendary japanese dragonくらおかみ「闇龗」
灩「知らない」
麤.「知らない」
䯂 [this one doesn't even come up on mine, lol]
A Kanji with the Most Strokes Ever / Hardest Kanji Ever?? - Oniichan - 2012-07-18
Try this: http://nihonshock.com/2009/10/crazy-kanji-highest-stroke-count/
A Kanji with the Most Strokes Ever / Hardest Kanji Ever?? - Katsuo - 2012-07-18
kuria Wrote:Do you have spellings and meanings? I am not sure if this is correct.Of those kanji the only one I know is 鬱. The compound 憂鬱（ゆううつ, depression, gloom）is quite common.
鬱 depression
龗legendary japanese dragonくらおかみ「闇龗」
灩「知らない」
麤.「知らない」
䯂 [this one doesn't even come up on mine, lol]
The page Oniichan linked to is very interesting. The joyo kanji got updated after that page was made however, and now includes 鬱 (which has moved to Kanjikentei Level 2).