I've always liked 珍 for some reason. And there's something about 蕊 that just makes me smile when I see it.

On the other hand, I've always detested 承. And 飛 bugs me, as well. But then, it might just be because I've always had a hellofa time writing them nicely.

Jeromin wrote:

凹 and 凸, they don't even look like Kanji

lol

The one I refuse to learn is 襲. No one should ever have been allowed to create a kanji like that.

For some reason I really like 誰. I learned it when I was about 13 years old and just being able to write something complicated like that at that age thrilled me.

Jarvik7 wrote:

Ugliest: Every simplified hanzi. Looking at stuff like 么儿专个气乐发 etc is enough to make one feel nauseous.

Oh my god yes.

Also not a fan of the 凹/凸 combo either.

Not really sure what kanji I find particularly appealing.. I'm more of a glass half empty person.

Last edited by QuackingShoe (2009 February 07, 11:42 pm)

Jarvik7 wrote:

Ugliest: Every simplified hanzi. Looking at stuff like 么儿专个气乐发 etc is enough to make one feel nauseous.

O MY ******* GODS YES!!!!!

I hate simplified Hanzi it is so ugly, what I hate most is the way they strip characters of their blocks of primitives and replace them with horrible criss crossing bollocks with no meaning stripping characters of their form and meaning.

Every person who knows about my Japanese agrees when I show them a Kanji and then it's simplified equivalent

my favorite by far : 永
the perfect kanji , love at first sigh
I like the drawing  , a modele of balance .
All the basic strokes are included
and the meaning is also one of my favorite word : eternity .

On a side note I like the Heisig story too , very poetical (even though when it comes to eternity it's very hard not to be )    perfect I toldyou .

I quickly took a liking to  武 & 城 & 襲 (even if for the latter I had to struggle with it a lot for the dragon part of the kanji )
I think I enjoy 導 too  but as for the other sometimes it's hard to tell wether you like the drawing or the very notion.


The one I hate ?
well basically all the 24 strokes and more kanjis .... for me it's just showing off....not to mention a f.... loss of time .
and obviously I have to go with the others :凹/凸 is hardly a kanji.... you don't bust your ass 365 days a year 18H a day to review some 4 years old kid writing.....
EDIT :and yes simplified hanzi is definetely ugly too.... while I never learned any of those languages it always make me think of  a guy learning both chinese and korean at the same time ,   mixing and messing  everything  up ....

Last edited by ghinzdra (2009 February 08, 3:50 am)

pm215 wrote:

Machine_Gun_Cat wrote:

I hate simplified Hanzi it is so ugly, what I hate most is the way they strip characters of their blocks of primitives and replace them with horrible criss crossing bollocks with no meaning stripping characters of their form and meaning.

Do you use all the pre-WW2 unreformed versions of the kanji, then? :-)

Personally I write everything in grass script 万葉仮名. (I am learning how to read it right now actually)

Personally I like simplified Hanzi a lot. Why put in TONS of radicals and extra strokes when it works fine with less? Faster to write, easier to read. Quite often, less is more.

I think I mentioned this before, but any handwritten version of 警 makes me sick.
I quite like 冠, especially in the form where the front "human leg" stretches out under the "glue" (unlike in Gekkeikan's logo where it's written as a hook, although that version is cool too).  I'm not sure which version is the usual handwritten form, though.

Last edited by snallygaster (2009 February 08, 7:35 am)

There are no ugly kanji, some kanji are just very special.

夢 is definitely the most attractive kanji ever.

As for hideousness... I'm not sure. But I do find 警 very very hard to write. The proportions just never work out.

I'm with sethg on this one - 夢 is lovely.

麗 looks like some kind of alligator.