Complex Chinese characters, there are so many of them aren’t there!
In truth, there is, but actually every character is built up using a series of radicals and strokes which means even the most ridiculous looking characters all have their logic.
Every single Chinese character can be broken down using these strokes and radicals which makes our lives a little easier!
However, no matter what way we look at it, these characters are head-scratchers. Understanding the logic takes time. Writing them, even longer!
Let’s dig and check out our definitive guide to the most complicated Chinese characters.
1. biáng
The most complex character consisting of 58 strokes is pronounced as biáng. Biang Biang Noodles – biáng biáng miàn is a typical noodles-dish that is famous and popular in China’s Shaanxi province.
One character is made up using several other characters:
This character contains within itself the characters for speak言(7 strokes), tiny 幺 (2×3 strokes) on both sides, horse 馬 (10 strokes), grow長 (2×8 strokes), moon 月 (4 strokes), heart 心 (4 strokes), and knife刂 (2 strokes). These are then surrounded by a second layer of characters: cave 穴 (5 strokes) on the top and walk 辶 (4 strokes) on the left side.
This complex and rare Chinese character isn’t found in modern dictionaries and can’t be typed on a computer!
2. 龘dá
This character ‘dá’ consists of 48 strokes and is also hard to write even though it is the same character 龍three times. The meaning of this character means “the appearance of a walking dragon.” This character can be found in Simplified Chinese.
3. 齉 nàng
Nàng can be described as the third hardest Chinese character consisting of 36 strokes. The meaning of this character is “stoppage of the nose, causing one to speak with a nasal twang.” Even though this character seems to belong to the traditional ones, it is actually used in modern Chinese in the same way. The left side character 鼻 means nose and 囊means pocket.
4. 爨 cuàn
The character cuàn made up of 29 strokes mean oven. Inside this character 火 and 木 can be found, in a sense which is logical for the usage of an oven. Even if there are other characters for oven, maybe this character is the reason why most Chinese households do not use an oven.
5. 馕 náng
The last character on our list is náng, which is a Xinjiang style bread of the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority in the Northwest China. This bread is best to be eaten when it comes straight out of the oven. The left side Character means food and the right-side character, just as with number three from above means bag.
Post time: Apr-07-2020