Most complicated/intricate Kanji?

[Coffeesan]

Just a little fun what do people think? I dont know many Kanji but the most complicated one I use is... 窶敕 but I'm sure many people can thrash this

 

[nice gaijin]

I always thought 鬱, from 憂鬱 was a particularly complicated one. The kanji for きれい is also pretty intricate; 綺麗

Of course, all kanji are just a sum of their parts, just find the ones with the most parts and you've found the most complicated characters.

 

[Coffeesan]

Those are absolutely riddiculous, how do people memorize these? :s

I know they are all made up of individual radicals and in effect 6-7 little pictures bolted together into a bigger picture but still.. Blows my mind.

 

[nice gaijin]

I've forgotten how to write many kanji by hand long ago, but I can recognize them immediately. This is pretty common for learners and native speakers, as we tend to handwrite things less and less these days.

 

[Glenn]

It's probably the biang of Biangbiang noodles.

 

[Coffeesan]

It's probably this. Read more about it at Biangbiang noodles.

Thats mental I dont know how anyone can write/draw that!

 

[Toritoribe]

I've watched in a TV show that the kanji with the largest number of strokes in the dictionary are "tetsu/techi" and "sei". 64 strokes!!

tetsu/techi

sei

 

[nice gaijin]

It's probably the biang of Biangbiang noodles.

That one is great, not just because there are so many strokes but because it actually uses different radicals. Win.

 

[visser300]

May anyone tell me the common kanji that I would read everyday? Remembering kanji characters is really a pain!!!

 

[Glenn]

If I recall correctly there's also one that's 3 雲 and 3 龍. I'm not sure how to get that one, though.

 

[Toritoribe]

That's a Japanese origin kanji for surnames "Otodo", "Taito", or "Daito". 84 strokes!

Although it's said that there is no absolute evidence about the actual existance of this kanji.

 

[Glenn]

Yup, that's the one! Thanks for finding that!

[Edit] Why's this thread in Chit-Chat? Wouldn't it be more suited to the Nihongo Forum?

 

[Glenn]

I just came across this page, which has some doozies, linked from the Japanese page on Biangbiang Noodles. You have to scroll down to the bottom.

 

[Coffeesan]

Yup, that's the one! Thanks for finding that!
[Edit] Why's this thread in Chit-Chat? Wouldn't it be more suited to the Nihongo Forum?

I figured its not really accademic and teaching anyone anything. Its just making us hate the Chinese for inventing this malarky

 

[Toritoribe]

I just came across this page, which has some doozies, linked from the Japanese page on Biangbiang Noodles. You have to scroll down to the bottom.

Oh, exactly. Wiki seems to know everything.

 

[Coffeesan]

Oh, exactly. Wiki seems to know everything.

Wikipedia the modern bible