![]() ![]() Tied for 5th place is another 48-stroke abomination: tō. Uh, yeah, that’s just a little hard to read. Kanji that are made up of the same kanji two, three, or four times are called rigiji (理義字), and we’ll see more of them on this list. ![]() This one is made up of the same kanji (“cloud” 雲) four times, and means “widespread clouds,” which kind of makes sense. ![]() With that out of the way though, let’s get to the list of officially-recognized kanji!įirst up on the list of kanji found in the Morohashi dictionary is this 48-stroke monster: dō. It was most likely created by a noodle store in some sort of publicity stunt and has stuck around to today because of its sheer insanity/hilarity.īut at an incredible 56 strokes, I’d still be remiss not to include it. Why is this behemoth only an honorable mention? Because it’s not in the Morohashi dictionary, or pretty much any other dictionary for that matter. ▼ Here’s the shopfront of one such store, where you can see the horrible truthĪbout this kanji: the only time you’d ever write it, you have to write it twice. Outside of torturing people, this character (pronounced “biang” in Chinese) is only found in one place: noodle shops in China’s Shaanxi Province that specialize in selling Biang Biang Noodles. Just look at that mess! It’s so miserable to write that it’s even used as punishment. ▼ The Morohashi Daikanwa Jiten, courtesy of my alma mater UMass Amherst:Ī 13-volume, golden-colored beast that contains over 50,000 kanji. But if we’re going to do this, then we’re going to do it right, and that means no simple Google searches, we’re going to the source, the ultimate guide to every single kanji that has ever officially existed. Well, today, we’re finally going to take a crack at the answer by looking at the kanji that have the most strokes. That seemingly simple question has a lot of possible answers, based on what they mean by “difficult.” Do they mean the hardest to physically write? The hardest to remember? The weirdest ones? Or the ones with the most strokes? The kanji with the most strokes – you may run out of ink before you finish writing some of these.Īs a Japanese tutor, I get one question from my students more often than any other: what’s the most difficult kanji ever? ![]()
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