Re: Kanji with way too many strokes

From: Chris Kern (chriskern99_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 07:55:38 +0900

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:04:15 +0200, "Konrad Den Ende"
<chamster@home.com> posted the following:

>> 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.

Depends on the source you look at. Hadamitzky and Spahn's dictionary
has a 64-stroke character which is simply the 龍 repeated four times
and supposedly means "verbose". I think they just included that
character to be funny, though.

Kanjigen, a Japanese kanji dictionary with 12000+ characters, tops out
at 34 strokes for a character that is 驫 on top of 木 and supposedly
means "a great amount" although no examples of compounds are provided.

-Chris

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