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The Most Difficult Chinese Characters...Ever!

October 26, 2007
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Hardest Chinese characters

Here are the 23 hardest Chinese characters selected from Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典, the chinese dictionary edited in Qing dynasty), only very few Chinese have seen these characters, not to mention knowing their pronunciation and meaning... HK Newspaper Mingpao News (明報) found them for us.


1. This is the word "Exorcism"
中文的 "驅魔"...

Hardest Character

2. This is the word "noodle"
This is a noodle in Shaan xi.
陝西的特色麵食的寫法...

hardest chinese characters

3. This is the word "one"
In Chinese is "一". but it looks just like scrabble.
這是"一"的 異體字 ...

hardest chinese characters

4. This is the word "cheat"
What a cheater!!
譸 的古字

hardest chinese characters

5. This is the word "flying squirrel"
Explain : A bird in farms is flying squirrel....
田中有鳥叫做 "飛鼠"...

Hardest Character

6. This is the word "Flying Dragon"

difficult Chinese

7. This is the word "River"
You probably can figure this word out because it have waves.
"河" 的古字

Hardest Character

8. This is the word "thunder"
What a hard word...
"雷" 的古字...

Hardest Character

9. This is the word "love"
Love ?? Hmm... love is really complex....
戀 的古字... 愛情果然很複雜

difficult Chinese

10. This is the word "mouth"
This is not a triangle, it's a mouth...
口 的異體字. 不是三角形喔

difficult Chinese

11. This is the hardest character
This character contains 64 strokes, and has the meaning of chatter.
The Unicode is U+2A6A5.

most difficult character

12. This is the word "yard"
This word made by a lot of tree...
這個字是 庭 的古字

most difficult character

13. This is the word "herbaceous"
The word herbaceous , just like a folks.
中文的 "葵".

difficult chinese

14. This is the word "Nation"
Combined Chinese words mountain and farm.
“邦“ 的古字

difficult chinese

15. This is the word "peace"
What a peace square word.
“祇" 的古字

difficult Chinese

16. This is the word "commend"
Double door is commend ?
"褒" 的古字...

difficult Chinese

17. This is the word "lamb"
According to this word, it should be big "sheep", but this is represent "lamb".
"小羊"的古字... 不是寫大羊嗎 哪裡小了 ?

difficult Chinese

18. This is the word "announce"
Before you announce, please pass the maze...
"亘" = 宣 還真是個迷宮..

difficult Chinese

19. This is the word "Bad luck"
Just bad luck...
"衰" 的古字.

Hardest Character

20. This is the word "celestial"
A man stand on the mountain.
"仙" 的古字

Hardest Character

21. This is the word "suffix"
Reasonable!
“丁“ 的古字... 難怪會說 "一丁點兒"

Hardest Character

22. This is the word "one"...
Again, this is the word one.
壹 的古字

Hardest Character

23. This is the word "Giant"
巨 的古字...

hardest chinese characters

Source: Recordcup

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WR
4 year ago
anonymous2, these are all OLD characters.Obviously, normal chinese people wouldn't know them.
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anonymous2
4 year ago
I'm chinese and these are not real characters!!!! LOLOLOL!! Where did you get them from?²
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n/a
4 year ago
Well..I think they are like ancient words... Btw..the word "Chatter" DOES exist in the chinese dictionary. I looked into the dictionary and is the last word in there. Maybe cuz the chinese dictionary I have is Korean Chinese dictinary. You know...Koreans also use Chinese words... I didn't know Chinese words had circles or curves..lol
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anonymous
5 year ago
I'm chinese and these are not real characters!!!! LOLOLOL!! Where did you get them from?
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dave
5 year ago
Very interesting!!!
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<3 manga <3
5 year ago
GEEZ!! They look so...hard. I wonder how your supposed to remember them!!!
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Miss J
5 year ago
Haha, here is a list of new Chinese characters invented by foreigners:http://www.chinese-tools.com/characters/new.html
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amduscius
5 year ago
r u for REAL...how r u going to rite dat??
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Editor B
5 year ago
Cool. But is this for real?
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Overthinker
5 year ago
Some I can verify in the Kangxi zitien, but others are missing. The "Exorcism" one is not under the heart radical, and the closest to that "Thunder" one is a quarter the size. I have found Yard and Love though - Love is very unusual, though the Kangzi implies it has strokes connecting the circles.
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