The Most Difficult Japanese Kanji (Practically Speaking)

Came here from reddit, I just wanted to say that, for me, rarity of the radicals in a kanji determines their difficulty

Why aren't your videos more popular? 😭 Interesting as always :))

Honestly, gloom (鬱) might be my single favorite character in all of japanese. It's such a bold and distinctive shape. I don't think there's anything even SLIGHTLY similar to it in all of the joyo kanji. It's one of maybe a dozen kanji I can write completely from memory, and even though my stroke order is nonsense, I can be confident that a reader would recognize it. The kanji that really bust my balls are usually ones with really common elements that are similar to one another, and it's worse again if the meanings feel somewhat related. Recently for example, I had some real trouble in my review deck with rope (綱) and netting (網). I also have a tough time keeping some similar radicals straight, such as inserted between (夹), even (平), and half (半).

I was thinking about this topic when my friend jokingly showed me the kanji for たいと. When he told me it was the first he found when looking for hard kanji, I thought it was silly for the same reason you gave. Neat video!

All of your videos are so well put together and very informative. I really hope your channel continues gaining the traction it deserves

Keep up the great work man, these are all such high quality

your channel definitely deserves more views !!

Dude this was awesome. Super educational!

Wow, amazing video. You should have way more subscribers. Keep up the great work!!

Thank you for that video :)

Man, that mosquito analogy was too real

My mom started teaching me kanji before I even went to kindergarten, and I started writing them about as early as I went to school. 鬱 is definitely one of the least intuitive kanji I have ever seen. The other two examples weren't too nasty (notably for having fewer strokes) but this one is an effing covid-19. It combines smaller pieces rarely if ever found in other kanji in a configuration that follows almost none of the logic we intuit from other highly used kanji. It's like a recipe full of ingredients you can't find in any grocery stores you or any of your friends know about, prepared and combined using mostly techniques you never use. That's how you make 鬱

Dogen's favorite difficult kanji is 痙攣

I even just learned taito kanji in just like 1 minutes

Very informative even for a native Japanese speaker such as myself :D Keep up the great work!

I’m here before you blow up :D I loved this video man

Fun video! Quick question, where can I find the background music used in this video?

Great thing I saw this on Reddit! どうもありがとうございました! :)

Very informative, you answered a lot of questions for me. Thank you very much! I would argue that the most dangerous animal would be the Human. A mosquito is an insect not an animal but, they are one of the biggest killers of people.

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