掲示板 Forums - Favorite kanji?

Hmm, not sure. Here's a few I like:

• 光
• 魔 - used in a lot of fantasy words
• 嵐 - looks like wind with a crown :D
• 壺 - looks cool
• 雷
• 翼
• 凹 - fun shape
• 凸 - fun shape
• 乃 - I like the look, and you see it in names

For me 凸 is the more interesting of the two. It gets used quite a bit within streaming/gaming culture. For example 凸待ち or using duplicates to limit-break/strengthen a character in gacha games. Shorthand that came from limit-break systems, simplified over time. 限界突破 → 限突 → 限凸 → 凸.

I think it's X凸 = total duplicates burned, but don't quote me on that.

Waaaait wait wait, there's a dog and a cave in 突? How did I not...? And then it got morphed into a jigsaw puzzle piece? Oh, I love kanji.

BTW, any recommendations on reference books for kanji etymology? (Oh no. I can already see myself knowing which kanji evolved out of some obscure tradition akin to the fish-slapping dance, while still not being able to hold a basic conversation in Japanese.)

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To answer your question 旺文社漢字典 第四版 and 漢字源 (you can use them with yomitan too). You can also type 解字 (litteraly explanation of a kanji) on the internet.

As for the kanji, I think I like 気? Because it's very versatile kanji and also tied to asian culture in general
I also like 紅 but just because of 紅葉 (because of the scenery). And also 訳 because of わけ (not sure how to explain why).

hum... nevermind. I don't think I like kanji "right now"

Once I'm done with the jouyou and/or I manage to find more time to work on my conversation skill, I will like them again xD

​Nice list!

〇 (○(まる)​) is a symbol that visually represents a 丸. It can mean "correct" / "yes" (That's why the PlayStation controller has a 〇 button) (not its only use, of course)

憂鬱 is a word I use in Shiritori all the time :D

I didn't really know anything about "ghost kanji", so 妛 is very interesting. I see that it's not used at all, and the glosses ("despise, contempt, ugly, same as") got erroneously borrowed form other kanji. I should look into it some more. (as the note says - a likely misspelling of 𡚴)

PS: A few more of 'em: 彁 - 椦 - 穃

Edit: Interesting... so ghost kanji = human errors → fossilised in reference works → later digitised. (some directly born from errors in the digitalization process?)

Rickyyyy145 (02月9日, 18:56)

ギョルギ九十三 (02月9日, 18:00)

Rickyyyy145 (02月9日, 12:20)

Hi I might be weird with my list but it's

1.曜

2.鬱

3.憂

4.凸凹

5.〇(I'm not sure about this one but Ive seen this one before)

6.妛(ghost kanji)

7.太

8.幽霊

so yeah

​Nice list!

〇 (○(まる)​) is a symbol that visually represents a 丸. It can mean "correct" / "yes" (That's why the PlayStation controller has a 〇 button) (not its only use, of course)

憂鬱 is a word I use in Shiritori all the time :D

I didn't really know anything about "ghost kanji", so 妛 is very interesting. I see that it's not used at all, and the glosses ("despise, contempt, ugly, same as") got erroneously borrowed form other kanji. I should look into it some more. (as the note says - a likely misspelling of 𡚴)

PS: A few more of 'em: 彁 - 椦 - 穃

Edit: Interesting... so ghost kanji = human errors → fossilised in reference works → later digitised. (some directly born from errors in the digitalization process?)

​Apparently the ghost kanji 妛 was a mistake that some one made when writing 妛(without the line on top(idk what's the meaning or if it's real)) and it became a ghost kanji

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i found this(it's not real but it's super popular as the hardest kanji in the world.)I would add this as it funny to bet who can write this the fastest and most accurate

That "hardest kanji in the world" looks like something produced by that famed calligraphy method, "ramen noodles + marker".

Looking at it some more, though, this could have serious decorative potential, if you picked a more rounded calligraphy and kanji linked by a common theme so they form something of a poem. I would definitely hang that on a wall and I'm sure it's been done before. Like a form of graphical poetry. A bit like Arabic calligraphy made to form a relevant shape:

To get back on track, I have a new pet kanji: 淵(ふち)​. The shape suggests the meaning beautifully. It really transports me to one of those moments swimming over an underwater limestone shelf, where suddenly the bottom just splits and you see down, down, down, into nothing, and inside that cleft the water fractures the light beams making them look like one of those plasma ball lamps... and I should stop the daydreaming, it's cold and grey outside. But kanji are still beautiful.