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Thursday, November 26, 2009

.::REALLY COOL AND COMPLEX OBSCURE CHINESE AND JAPANESE CHARACTERS::.

I found these really cool chinese / jap character or Kanji in japanese ( 漢字/かんじ）thats got loads of strokes.!! dam cool! This is one cool thing about chinese characters. Really a genius invention!!! They started out as wavy drawing which transformed into readable strokes! And chinese have had a much longer history than westerners!! one of the longest in fact. And there's this cool dictionary that has 83,000 plus chinese characters including obscure , rare and unused characters! At a big price of course! But i wanna buy next time!
But currently am into jap which is a really interesting languange closely related to chinese !

EXCEPT for the last 4 words i'm sure most of you of never seen any of the other characters , esp. chinese students cos these words are obscure and no longer in use / RARELY USED . They were invented in the ming , zhou etc dynasties as well as in early periods in japan.
Here's the first one :

Zhé ( means verbose ) Really cool word. Another version is with 3 of the above repeated characters and is read as ta ( 4th reading )

Zhèng (unknown meaning)

Nàng, "poor enunciation due to snuffle"

Taito, "the appearance of a dragon in flight" ( Japanese only character) NOT FOR USE IN CHINESE

This is read as Biang, a name for

Biang Biang noodles , a local dish in a province in china. Since there is no reading or existence of Biang in any chinese dictionary, this word has been considered a dialectual word rather than used in chinese. As u can see , it has so many many strokes. Toke me a few mins to remember.

This Jap-only Kanji , Ouichiza stands at 79 strokes! Amazing EH!! Really nice arrangement! Not sure of the meaning tho! Looks buddhist 6 side formation.

The best has to be this one : Standing at 84 strokes and a japanese character