The Character with the Most Strokes!!!
pulosm
October 10, 2007, 07:23 PM posted in General DiscussionI just thought this was crazy interesting. The character with the most strokes is supposed to be "biang2," a type of noodle. I don't think you can really type it out using most wordprocessing systems, but here is a nice picture of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bi%C3%A1ng.svg
I think we should all try writing it once for fun! I count 57 strokes, but it depends how your render the 廴 ["yin3" (or is it "chuo4"?)] radical. I think it is technically 3 strokes, right?
goulnik
October 10, 2007, 10:42 PMbiang，is that a pinyin sound？
kimiik
October 10, 2007, 11:23 PMAbout Biang ... there's more on the Forum : http://forum.chinesepod.com/viewtopic.php?t=1170&highlight=biang http://forum.chinesepod.com/viewtopic.php?t=1861&highlight=biang
kimiik
October 10, 2007, 11:27 PMOops the second link is about 龘 ta4.
rich
October 10, 2007, 11:31 PMApparently it is, just not a very common one! We had talked about this character on the forums before: http://forum.chinesepod.com/viewtopic.php?t=1989 http://forum.chinesepod.com/viewtopic.php?t=1861 http://forum.chinesepod.com/viewtopic.php?t=1170
goulnik
October 10, 2007, 11:32 PMcharacters with the most strokes according to Wenlin (which have a standard electronic glyph), followed by the simplified form : 鸝 (鹂) lí - 30 驫 (骉) biāo - 30 : galloping horses 鱺 (鲡) lí - 30 鸞 (鸾) luán - 30 : phoenix-like mythical bird 癵 luán - 30 : contraction of the hands and feet 灩 huō, yàn - 31 : overflowing, billowing; wavy 籲 variant of 龥 (吁) yù - 32 : appeal; plead 灪 yù : 32 麤 (variant of 粗) cū - 33 爩 yù - 33 齾 yà - 35 齉 nàng - 36 : have a stuffy nose 龘 dá - 48 : appearance of a dragon in flight
azerdocmom
October 11, 2007, 03:11 AMWhat a colossal word! Wow!
wildyaks
October 12, 2007, 10:52 AMWe should have a competition: Who can write this character and whose character does look best... I just tried. It was totally out of skilter. Fun!
pulosm
October 10, 2007, 07:29 PMWait! The "four dragon" "zhe2" character has more strokes! I count 68 (17 for each "long2"). Biang2 is still cooler.