Re: Kanji with way too many strokes

From: Sean Holland (seanholland_at_pants.telus.net)
Date: 06/13/04


Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:18:34 GMT

in article caietn$qgs$1@news.gu.se, Konrad Den Ende at chamster@home.com
wrote on 6/13/04 2:04 PM:

>> I don't have a list of Joyou kanji handy but I think there is only a
> handful
>> above about 20 strokes that people would know. Although many of the kanji
>> you'll find up in that area are actually the old unabbreviated way of
>> writing more common kanji and some are recognizable just from common
>> knowledge or common sense.
>
> Just of pure curiosity - what is the strokewise longest kanji
> (not necessarly used very frequently)? Would be nice to
> know as a trivia to impress friends.

I don't know what the highest stroke count kanji is, but one with a whole
lot of strokes that isn't so hard to do is 驫. I can't imagine any purpose
for it other than to have a 30 stroke kanji that you know how to do.

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