User:Arknarok/Kanji Guide/Ultra-weird Kanji

This guide is a translation of Henkanji guide, which is a collection of some of the weirdest characters in Chinese and Japanese.
First of all, some common sources for these kanji:

Dai - means Daikanwa Jiten dictionary.

Kan - means Kango Daijiten dictionary.

Chuu - means Chuuka Jikai dictionary.

Kou - means Kougi Jiten dictionary.

Setsu - means Setsubun Kaiji dictionary.

Sources will be given for each kanji. Sources are not limited to 5 dictionaries listed above. Dai, Kan and Chuu are considered the most reliable, and, therefore, if kanji appears in any of these sources, other sources can be omitted.

Note: this article may include some pretty obscure kanji in text form. If you can't see certain characters, make sure your Unicode support is good enough.

	Radical: 弓 + 0 strokes (3 total). Ancient form of 乃. This kanji looks a lot like 弓, but its first stroke is much longer than usual. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 弓 + 1 stroke (4 total). Ancient form of 及. The first stroke was split into two strokes in this kanji. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 弓 + 2 strokes (5 total). Ancient form of 乃. This kanji is two 弓 following each other. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 弓 + 0 strokes (2 total). Onyomi: KAN, GON. Meaning: flower bud. This kanji is classified as having 弓 for radical because it looks like it a bit. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 弓 + 0 strokes (4 total). Onyomi: KEN, GEN. Meaning: many flower buds. This is simply previous kanji repeated twice. For some reason, it's still listed as +0 strokes. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 戈 + 12 strokes (16 total). Ancient form of 誖. Onyomi: HAI. Meaning: opposition. Bottom part is the same as upper, but reversed. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 戈 + 16 strokes (20 total). Variant of (Onyomi: FUTSU, BUCHI) (this kanji is not in Unicode charts yet). Meaning: subdue. It's the same character, which means you can still use it today. But since the takes much less space, there's no point in using anything else. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 氵 + 23 strokes (26 total). Onyomi: HITSU, HICHI. Meaning: in a manner of rushing spring. This character has a proper dictionary entry, totally usable. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 灬 + 16 strokes (20 total). Same as 𤊸 (Onyomi: FUTSU) (This character is in Unicode charts, check its Unicode entry if you can't see it). Meaning: vigorous flame. This kanji's shape definitely feels energetic. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 角 + 16 strokes (23 total). Same as 觱 (Onyomi: HITSU). Meaning: Hichiriki (musical instrument). Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 火 + 16 strokes (20 total). Original form of 𤊸 (Onyomi: FUTSU). Meaning: vigorous flame. Same as the kanji 2 positions above. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 艸 + 6 strokes (10 total). Original form of 葵. According to Shinkangorin dictionary, the bottom part of this kanji represents an ancient instrument that was used to determine location using sun's position, which sort of represents mallows (葵) facing the sun. By the way, it's also said that japanese mallows ("aoi") get their name from 仰ぐ火 (aogu hi, "facing the flame"). Sources: Dai.
	Radical: 宀 + 1 stroke (4 total). Ancient form of 官. This stroke resembles the mark of toll-free numbers. Sources: Dai, Ruihen dictionary.
	Radical: 爪 + 17 strokes (21 total). Ancient form of 恋. It's rare enough to see a circle in kanji, but this one has two. Sources: Dai, Kou, Shuuin dictionary.
	Radical: 人 + 3 strokes (5 total). Ancient form of 霒 (Onyomi: IN, ON). Meaning: Yin. 霒 itself is an old form of Yin kanji (陰). The long wiggly line at the bottom probably represents the omitted "cloud" element. Sources: Dai, Gobun Shiseiin dictionary.
	Radical: 山 + 6 strokes (9 total). Ancient form of 青. This kanji has a dot in it. It probably got smeared all the time when this kanji was written by hand. Sources: Dai, Setsu, Seijitsuu dictionary.
	Radical: 口 + 8 strokes (11 total). Ancient form of 玄. Looks a lot like 串. Also has two dots. Sources: Dai, Setsu.
	Radical: 長 + 0 strokes (6 total). Ancient form of 長. This kanji is so strange, it even has a V in it. Sources: Dai, Setsu.
	Radical: 厂 + 13 strokes (15 total). Ancient form of 虎. This kanji has a loop in it. While it is an ancient form of 虎, it also looks a lot like kanji. Daikanwa dictionary uses a bit different form for the loop, and lists this kanji as 厂+12 (14 strokes). Sources: Dai, Setsu.
	Radical: 工 + 1 stroke (4 total). Ancient form of 巨. This kanji is supposed to represent a ruler (工) with a hand (4th stroke) over it. Sources: Dai.
	Radical: 非 + 0 strokes (8 total). Ancient form of 卯 (Hare sign). Two triangles make this kanji fall into weird category. Sources: Dai, Shuuin dictionary.
	Radical: 弓 + 8 strokes (11 total). Ancient form of 為. This is easy: old form of 弱, with its left side flipped horizontally. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 臼 + 5 strokes (12 total). Ancient form of 為. Could be a deformation of the kanji above this. This kanji can be split both horizontally and vertically. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 囗 + 3 strokes (4 total). Onyomi: SOU. Meaning: hole. A kanji with diagonal lines. This kanji form is only found in Mojikyo software dictionary. Other dictionaries do not include this variant of the 𡆪 kanji. Sources: Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 幺 + 19 strokes (22 total). Same as 孳 (onyomi: JI). Meaning: to bear children, to give birth. The top part of this kanji is pretty normal, but the bottom has a flipped "dog" radical in it. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 凵 + 9 strokes (11 total). Same as 凵. This kanji really stands out. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 冖 + 16 strokes (18 total). Ancient form of 煙. This peculiar kanji has an element that looks like # at an angle. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: ノ + 3 strokes (4 total). Ancient form of 也. This kanji has an element that looks like ん. This kanji only appears in Mojikyo. As far as being an ancient form of 也, it appears to be a variant of another ancient form: 𠃟. Sources: Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 二 + 6 strokes (8 total). Ancient form of 斉. This kanji form is still used in seals today. Sources: Dai, Kentei Moji Benshousho.
	Radical: 亅 + 1 stroke (2 total). Onyomi: CHOU. Meaning: to hang, something hangs. Example word: 了𠄏 (りょうちょう) - hang on to something. This kanji is basically an inverted 了. Despite dictionaries even providing an example word, there's a note saying "because this kanji is so hard to write, kanji 鳥 or even 佻 are used in its place". Well, what do you know: hard to write kanji don't end up being used! Sources: Dai, Kan.
	Radical: 亅 + 3 strokes (4 total). Original form of 幻. An inverted 予 this time. It must be a pain to write as well. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: ｜ + 4 strokes (5 total). Onyomi: KAI. Meaning: sheep's horn. Example word: 𠁥角 (かいかく) - street corner. Kanji that looks like a sheep's horn. According to dictionaries, it has another variant: 𦫳. Sources: Dai, Setsu.
	Radical: 一 + 4 strokes (5 total). Same as 丑. This one has 2 dots, but dictionaries say they can be replaced with 丶 in writing. Sources: Dai, Kanrei Jigen.
	Radical: 匚 + 8 strokes (10 total). Ancient form of 匚 (Onyomi: HOU). Meaning: box. Feels very 3D. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 匚 + 16 strokes (18 total). Ancient form of 箕 (Onyomi: KI). Meaning: winnowing basket (Kunyomi: mi). Winnowing basket is a tool used to separate bones, husks, etc. from grains. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 匚 + 18 strokes (20 total). Same as 𠥒 (Onyomi: TOU). Meaning: kind of ancient container. To think that a kanji like this could actually be usable... though unless you use that particular ancient container, you have no use for it. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 匚 + 26 strokes (28 total). Ancient form of 柩. This is what probably happened to this kanji: 𠥬→匶→匛 Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 邑 + 0 strokes (7 total). Onyomi: EN, ON. Meaning: garden. (Basically, same as 苑.) This isn't a reversed kanji, it's a mirrored one. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 邑 + 14 strokes (21 total). Ancient form of 郷. Contains the previous kanji. Sources: Dai, Kan.
	Radical: 邑 + 7 strokes (14 total). Original form of 巷 (Onyomi: KOU, kunyomi: chimata). This kanji can be abbreviated as 𨙵, so it's also considered an ancient form of aforementioned 郷 kanji. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 邑 + 13 strokes (21 total). Ancient form of 巷. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 一 + 1 stroke (2 total). Onyomi: KA. Original form of 呵. Be extra careful around this kanji, a lot of people get the wrong idea from the way it's written. Yes, this kanji only has 2 strokes. That is, the whole lower part is written with 1 stroke. This goes against common rules of kanji writing. With all this said, however, Kango Daijiten and Chuuka Jikai list this kanji with 4 strokes. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 一 + 1 stroke (2 total). Onyomi: E. Meaning: phonetic. This is an ancient phonetic symbol, it is only used to convey a sound, it doesn't have any meaning of its own. It is not a kanji. Sources: Dai.
	Radical: 丶 + 2 strokes (3 total). Old form of the kanji above. This kanji obviously gets listed under the 丶 radical because of the dot. Sources: Dai.
	Radical: 冂 + 20 strokes (22 total). Ancient form of 雨. That's a lot of raining going on in this kanji. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 口 + 23 strokes (26 total). Ancient form of 譸 (Onyomi: CHOU). Meaning: to curse. Sure, this kanji looks cursed. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 尸 + 9 strokes (12 total). Ancient form of 徂 (Onyomi: SO). Meaning: to go. This kanji has an H in it. Also, a part of its right side looks like an L. Sources: Dai, Kou.
	Radical: 木 + 0 strokes (4 total). Onyomi: GATSU. Meaning: stump. It makes sense that you get a kanji for stump by cutting off a top part of the tree kanji, but why do you only have to cut the very top part is unclear. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 木 + 8 strokes (12 total). Variant of 椒. That's a lot of dots for a kanji. With this many dots, it's hard to recognize the original kanji even if all dots are placed perfectly. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 木 + 20 strokes (24 total). Onyomi: EN, KI. Meaning unknown. This kanji is either 6x 木 or 3x 林, depending on how you look at it. Its essential meaning is unknown. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 木 + 28 strokes (32 total). Onyomi: SATSU, KI. Meaning unknown. Yet another level up. Too bad that the meaning is still unknown. Mojikyo claims that this kanji is an ancient form of 冊, but it's not confirmed anywhere else. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 火 + 28 strokes (32 total). Original form of 燧 (Onyomi: SUI). Means flint or smoke. Surrounding elements of this kanji are pretty weird. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 止 + 0 strokes (3 total). Onyomi: TATSU. Meaning: to step. Looks a lot like 少, but lacks a stroke on the right. The reason it uses the 止 radical is because its form is derived from kanji, which is used in seals. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 木 + 26 strokes (30 total). Ancient form of (Onyomi: RUI). Meaning: vine. That's a lot of 田's in there. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 缶 + 26 strokes (32 total). Ancient form of 罍 (Onyomi: RAI, RUI). Meaning: liquor jar. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 田 + 27 strokes (32 total). Ancient form of 雷. We didn't have any kanji with identical horizontal halves so far, here's the first one, finally. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 玉 + 0 strokes (5 total). Onyomi: SHUKU. Meaning: flawed jewel, jewel polishing craftsman, alternative form of 玉. This kanji looks a lot like 玉, but the position of the dot is different. Originally, 玉 didn't even have that final dot, it was added later to avoid confusion with 王. (In case you're wondering, the way they used to tell apart these kanji is this: in 玉, horizontal lines used to be spread equally across the kanji, while the middle horizontal line in 王 was placed a bit higher. Going back to the kanji we're looking at, Setsubun commentary book (Danchuubon) uses the same shape for it as it does for 王.) Basically, this kanji is very different from 玉, but it can be viewed as its alternative form. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu, Kinseki Moji Ben'i.
	Radical: 羊 + 21 strokes (27 total). Same as 善. That's a lot of horizontal lines. Makes you think if they overdid the simplification when they came up with 善. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 臣 + 6 strokes (12 total). Onyomi: KYOU, KOU. Meaning: to oppose, to go against. Now this kanji is easy to understand. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 臣 + 6 strokes (12 total). Same as 臦. Onyomi: OU. Meaning: to oppose, to go against. Now they face each other, but the kanji still means to oppose. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 臣 + 6 strokes (12 total). Onyomi: KYOU. Meaning: to oppose. (Another onyomi is OU, but it's unknown what meaning is behind this reading.) Daikanwa claims that this kanji has the meaning of "to oppose", quoting Gyokuhen as reference. However, Kango Daijiten and Chuuka Jikai (as well as Goin Henkai, Ryuugan Shukan and others) list onyomi OU for this kanji and specify that its meaning is unknown. Speaking of Zouzoku Daikou Ekikai Gyokuhen Taizen, while it does specify the meaning of "to oppose" for this kanji, there's a note saying "erroneous form of 臦 and 𦣩". Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 鳥 + 25 strokes (36 total). Ancient form of 䴎 (Onyomi: RAI). Meaning: flying squirrel. Here's another one of those kanji that have 4 田 in them. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 鳥 + 25 strokes (36 total). Ancient form of 䴎 (Onyomi: RAI). Meaning: flying squirrel. Now there are even more 田's - 5 total! Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 血 + 14 strokes (20 total). Same as 衄. Onyomi: JIKU. Meaning: nosebleed. That's a straight approach. There really isn't any point in creating a kanji that has the same stroke count as the whole original word, though... Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 阜 + 25 strokes (33 total). Ancient form of 隘 (Onyomi: AI, YAKU). Meaning: narrow, steep. Here's another kanji containing 𨺅. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 風 + 37 strokes (46 total). Same as 風. Onyomi: FUU. Meaning unknown. This kanji has 1.5 of 羽 in it. And that's not all: it also has 風 and 流. Daikanwa Jiten and Jiiho quote Kaihen Taisei for this kanji and come with this explanation: "this kanji appears to have FUU and HYUU as its onyomi". That may be correct, but Chuuka Jikai quotes the same Kaihen Taisen and ends up concluding that it's "same as 風". By the way, both Daikanwa Jiten and Kougi Jiten quote Goin Henkai as one of the sources of this kanji's onyomi, but Goin Henkai doesn't have this kanji in it in the first place... Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 風 + 35 strokes (44 total). Ancient form of 䬍 (Onyomi: KOTSU). Meaning: in a way of rushing wind. Lower left part requires some explanation. Kanji form seen on the picture comes from Daikanwa Jiten (it quotes Shuuin as reference), but other dictionaries provide their own versions of this kanji's shape. Shuuin, Kango Daijiten and Chuuka Jikai list 3x 豕 in the lower left corner. Jiiho and Goin Henkai list the same elements, but without 2 last strokes. Ruihen lists the same elements as Jiiho and Goin Henkai, but without the first stroke. Rikushotou gives the meaning of "in a manner of rushing boar" for this kanji. Whether or not rushing boar can be compared to rushing wind, I don't know. Sources: Dai.
	Radical: 風 + 47 strokes (56 total). Alternative form of 風. Onyomi: FUU. Meaning unknown. This kanji has one of the highest stroke count of all kanji, and it's really hard to write. Konjaku Mojikyo claims that it is an alternative form of 風, but they give no reference for that. Sources: Goin Henkai, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 臼 + 36 strokes (43 total). Ancient form of 塵. Another kanji with a lot of strokes. Stroke count is taken from Daikanwa Jiten data, but if you count them manually, you'll end up with 46 strokes. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 艸 + 39 strokes (43 total). Onyomi: YUU, U. Meaning: garden. Now you can see why people thought writing 庭 for "garden" was a lot faster. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 臼 + 57 strokes (64 total). Onyomi: SEI. Meaning unknown. Another kanji with amazing stroke count. Meaning is unknown, though. Sources: Dai, Chuu.
	Radical: 龍 + 48 strokes (64 total). Definition 1. Onyomi: TETSU, TECHI. Meaning: talkative. Definition 2. Same as 讋. Meaning: afraid, talkative. This kanji not only has many strokes, but it also has a clear definition. Chuuka Jikai claims that 讋 reference is found in Henkai, but Henkai doesn't have it. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 口 + 76 strokes (79 total). Kunyomi: ooichiza, ouichiza. Meaning: to spit in a crowd. This is not a kanji, this is kokuji, and that's why there are no kanji dictionary references for it. This kanji was featured in the book "sato no bakamura muda ji zukushi", which is a collection of characters invented by Koikawa Harumachi. In other words, it's simply a lump of kanji invented by one person, but its amazing stroke count made it popular. 2 forms of this kanji are given: top one is from Konjaku Mojikyo, lower one is closer to the original text. Sources: Itaiji Kenkyuushiryou Shuusei.
	Radical: 雨 + 76 strokes (84 total). Kunyomi: taito, daito, otodo. Meaning: used in family names. There's a rumor that a security company printed this character on their business card about 40 years ago (none of those cards were found). This character is often used to give an example of an extremely high-stroke kanji (actually, it's a kokuji). It's not featured in any kanji dictionary, and it's questionable whether it was actually used in surnames. Sources: Kokuji no Jiten.
	Radical: unknown + 0 strokes (1 total?). Onyomi: IN. Meaning unknown (buddhism kanji). ...What the heck is this? No, really, what is this shape supposed to be? Anyway, it's a buddhism kanji, particular to buddhist writing. It's only used in buddhism incantations and charms. It's just one stroke, but it must be hell to write... Source books give 18 copies of this kanji in a row, it's a truly frightening sight. Buddhism kanji overview would require a separate article, so we won't cover any more of them here. Sources: Taishou Shinshu Daizoukyou, Ronshuubun, Shakumaka Enron.
	Radical: 魚 + 2 strokes (13 total). Kunyomi: chikuwa. Meaning: tube fish paste cake. Another kokuji, though this time there is barely any info on it. I guess this shape is meant to symbolise something originated from a fish and made into a tube (drawn as ◎). Sources: Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 广 + 3 strokes (6 total). Variant of 慶. They were just screwing around with this one. Invented by Keiou University. Sources: Nihon no Kanji, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 广 + 1 stroke (4 total). Variant of 応. Another kokuji invented by Keiou University. You may think it's not right to abbreviate characters this much, but when you think that original word for Keiou was 慶應, you can see their reason. Nihon no Kanji states that this and the previous kanji had already existed in 1936. This makes them somewhat old abbreviations. Sources: Nihon no Kanji, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 广 + 4 strokes (7 total). Kunyomi: keiou. Meaning: Keiou. And this is the last 2 characters combined into one. According to Nihon no Kanji, this character was used as late as 1993. Sources: Nihon no Kanji, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 宀 + 3 strokes (6 total). Variant of 憲. Simplified/combined form of 警察. Because, of course, writing 憲法 every time is just tedious. Sources: Nihon no Kanji, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 石 + 3 strokes (8 total). Variant of 確. Original kanji isn't used THAT often and it isn't THAT difficult to write, so why would they make it, I do not know. Sources: Nihon no Kanji, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 食 + 3 strokes (12 total). Variant of 館. This one wasn't hard to write either. Sources: Nihon no Kanji, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 宀 + 3 strokes (6 total). Variant of 寮 Sources: Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 广 + 2 strokes (5 total). Variant of 魔 and 摩. I guess they weren't satisfied with just alphabet characters, so they started to use katakana as well. This character wasn't used for both 魔 and 摩 in a while. I guess you could abbreviate Tamagawa (多摩川) with this one. Sources: Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 二 + 0 strokes (2 total). Ancient form of 上. Visually indistinguishable from 二 (that is, the number kanji). Because these 2 kanji are so easy to confuse, Daikanwa writes this one in gothic font. The way you made these kanji different in handwriting is that this one has a shorter upper stroke compared to 二 (at least that's what Kouki Jiten tells us). However, the strokes as given by Kango Jiten are almost equal in length, and Chuuka Jikai doesn't make it look distinct from 二 either. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 二 + 0 strokes (2 total). Ancient form of 下. This is the reversal of the above kanji. Again, notice the gothic font. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 幺 + 2 strokes (5 total). Same as 𠄏. Aside from added 幺, not really different. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 石 + 48 strokes (53 total). Kunyomi: iwakura. Meaning: Place, where gods are enshrined. This is a kokuji. Of course, writing 岩倉 is way faster. Sources: Kokuji no Jiten.
	Radical: 月 + 53 strokes (57 total). Pinyin: sai. Meaning: dialect character. Yes, Mojikyo only lists pinyin reading for this kanji. Sources: Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 心 + 60 strokes (64 total). Onyomi: SETSU, SOKU. Meaning: used in taoism. Third 64-stroke character we're encountering. It is said it was used for taoist charms, but no charms containing this character have been found yet. Some people on the internet say it was used for exorcising charms, but there's no source for those claims. Readings are taken from Mojikyo, but Nihon no Kanji states that "no sources contain information on reading or meaning of this character". Sources: Nihon no Kanji, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 山 + 5 strokes (8 total). Ancient form of 邦. Some Yamadas will probably be happy to see this kanji. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 山 + 13 strokes (16 total). Definition 1: same as 支. Definition 2: unknown. Definition 3: same as 祗 (Onyomi: SHI, Kunyomi: tsutsushimu). Oh look, Mister Yamamoto... two of them even. Also, sources seem to conflict each other. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 門 + 8 strokes (16 total). Same as 褒. Gate radical inside another gate radical... feels like some heavily guarded house. How is this related to 褒, I have no idea. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 冂 + 3 strokes (5 total). Onyomi: DOU, NOU. Meaning: something hanging low. This one is a reversed 凹. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 木 + 3 strokes (7 total). Variant of 機. A "popular abbreviation" type character. These ones rarely make it to dictionaries, but they're still used. Sources: Nihon no Kanji, Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 山 + 3 strokes (6 total). Variant of 出. Someone didn't think this one through. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 囗 + 3 strokes (4 total). Astronomical character for "moon". This kanji has a circle enclosure. Most dictionaries, however, use kunigamae (囗) for the enclosure of this character. This particular form can only be found in Mojikyo. Sources: Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 囗 + 1 stroke (2 total). Astronomical character for "sun". Someone didn't think this one through. Sources: Kinseki Moji Ben'i, Zokusho Kango, Jigaku Sansei.
	Radical: 囗 + 1 stroke (2 total). Ancient and astronomical form of 日. The form inside the circle is the variant of 乙 above. I've read on some site that this kanji was listed among astronomical kanji in some book called "Chinese History", but I've never found that book. Sources: Rikushotou, Shodou Daijiten Tou Oukan Boshi.
	Radical: 囗 + 2 strokes (3 total). Ancient and astronomical form of 月. This one is even weirder. Once again, I've heard it was referenced in some "Chinese History" book, which I'm unable to find. Both Kinseki Moji Ben'i and Shodou Daijiten have a right-winded swastika inside the enclosure, instead of this form, so I'm not listing them as sources. Sources: Rikushotou.
	Radical: 囗 + 0 strokes (1 total). Definition 1: ancient and astronomical form of 星. Definition 2: same as 零. Now that's just a circle. Sources: Dai, Chuu, Shuuin, Juutei Chokuonhei.
	Radical: 木 + 60 strokes (64 total). Reading and meaning unknown. Found this one on some forum, don't remember which one. No source was given. It's a bogus kanji, most likely. No sources.
	Radical: 川 + 0 strokes (6 total). Ancient form of 坤 (Onyomi: KON, Kunyomi: hitsujisaru). Looks like someone erased the middle of 巛. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 川 + 3 strokes (6 total). Same as 坤. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 廾 + 0 strokes (3 total). Variant of 九. That should be easy: it's 八 plus 一, get it? But it's not so simple. It's said that this kanji is 九 with a broken 2nd stroke. You can see it because the left vertical stroke starts higher. There's another kanji, which has the right vertical stroke starting higher (which is a lot closer to 八 plus 一, by the way), that one means "to climb" (onyomi: HAN). Sources: Dai, Kan.
	Radical: 一 + 4 strokes (5 total). Onyomi: HOU. Meaning unknown. There's a stroke that bends 6 times in this kanji. Chuuka Jikai has a different version of this kanji (the vertical stroke is different) and lists it as "same as 鳳". Goin Henkai, however, identifies it as just "鳳(HOU) sound". Sources: Goin Henkai.
	Radical: ノ + 1 stroke (2 total). Ancient form of 五. That's just a dead ringer for katakana メ. As far as being the ancient form for 五, it wasn't very convenient, as it's easy to confuse with 十. That's why they started to put lines around it (), and some time later it transformed into the form we know now. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 八 + 0 strokes (2 total). Old form of 八. The question is how much pressure you apply to the brush while writing it. Dictionaries say that added pressure causes 八 to be written like this. Sources: Shinjigen.
	Radical: ｜ + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: KON. Meaning: vertical pole, to advance, to step aside. This kanji doesn't even have much to look at, so tasteless. Note that it has both "to advance" and "to step aside" as its meanings. Depending on which one is used, the writing changes slightly. "To advance" is written from bottom to top, and "to step aside" is written from top to bottom. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 丶 + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: CHU, CHUU, SHU, SU. Meaning: comma, lamp, ancient form of 主. Another tasteless kanji. Seriously, it's just a dot. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 亅 + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: KETSU, GETSU, GACHI. Meaning: key. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 乙 + 0 strokes (1 total). Definitions: ancient form of 隠; same as 乙; same as 𠃉; same as 毫. Sources: Dai, Kan, Juutei Chokuonhei.
	Radical: 乙 + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: ITSU, ATSU. Meaning: swallow (same as ). Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 乙 + 0 strokes (1 total). Script seal version of 乚. This "script seal" version looks very printed. This style is only observed in Daikanwa. Sources: Dai.
	Radical: 乙 + 0 strokes (1 total). Ancient form of 厷 (Onyomi: KOU). Meaning: elbow. Looks a lot like bent elbow. Juutei Chokuonhei has a bit different form of this kanji (with a much wider angle). Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: ノ + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: HETSU, EI, YOU. Meaning: to reach, to curve from right to left. Shinkangorin says that "in Japanese, commonly read with fricative sounds, such as "pe-", "pyo-" or "po-" (with sokuon at the end)", but no reference is given for that claim. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: ノ + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: FUTSU, FUCHI, BUCHI, HOCHI. Meaning: to curve from left to right. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: ノ + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: EI. Meaning: body appearance, pull, bend one's body, bright. Daikanwa uses 1 stroke for this kanji, Kango and Chuuka use 2. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: ノ + 0 strokes (1 total). Definition 1: Ancient form of 及. Definition 2: Onyomi: I. Meaning: to flow. It's not clear whether it's supposed to be an ancient form of 及 or another character for "to flow" Sources: Definition 1: Dai, Kan, Chuu, Setsu. Definition 2: Kan, Chuu, Seijitsuu.
	Radical: ノ + 0 strokes (1 total). Definition 1: Onyomi: I. Meaning: to flow. Same as 移. Definition 2: Ancient form of 及. It's not clear whether this kanji is another form of kanji above. Daikanwa says that the previous kanji is 及 and this one is "to flow". Sources: Definition 1: Dai, Kan, Chuu, Setsu. Definition 2: Kan, Chuu, Shuuin.
	Radical: 亅 + 0 strokes (1 total). Ancient form of 乃. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 亅 + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: KETSU. Meaning: key sign. Daikanwa uses a longer "hook" for this kanji. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 亅 + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: KON. Meaning: sharpening the opposite end of a key. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 川 + 0 strokes (1 total). Onyomi: KEN. Meaning: groove. (Same as 畎.) Looks a lot like katakana く. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 亅 + 0 strokes (1 total). Kunyomi: onsu. Meaning: unit of weight, ounce. Daijiten, for some reason, lists 口 radical for this one. In Ensei Ihou Meibutsukou (1822), this kanji is present, but the first hook (in the upper left) is omitted. Another form can be found in Seiyou Doryoukou (1855), which is similar to Ensei form, but makes the finishing line more round. Sources: Daijiten, Kokuji no Jiten.
	Radical: 乙 + 0 strokes (1 total). Kunyomi: koto. Meaning: abbreviation of 事. This character was used as okurigana in kanji works, so it's technically not a kanji, it's a kana supplement. Aside from Kokuji no Jiten, this character can be found in works of Meiji and Edo period. Sources: Kokuji no Jiten.
	Radical: 乙 + 0 strokes (1 total). Definition 1: Onyomi: WAN. Meaning unknown. Definition 2: Same as 乙. Zaisen Shinkajiten provides "WAN" onyomi and unknown meaning, while the other source claims it's a variant of 乙 kanji. Sources: Zaisen Shinkajiten, Kokusai Hyoujun Kanji Shiten.
	Radical: 一 + 5 strokes (6 total). Ancient form of 行. Sources: Kango Daijiten, Koten Senjibun.
	Radical: ノ + 1 stroke (2 total). Cursive form of 也. Looks a lot like ん. Sources: Dai, Daijiten.
	Radical: 牛 + 3 strokes (7 total). Kunyomi: ushinoayumigaosoi. Meaning: cow walking slowly. Sure, if you try to cross a river, you'll be walking slowly. This is NOT a kokuji. While it as a (pretty long) kunyomi, it's just that, a kunyomi. The reason while dictionaries only bother to list it is to make searching easier. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference (makes sense for some kanji up ahead as well, this is the source for the reading): Dai.
	Radical: 口 + 13 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: kotobagatadashikunai. Meaning: false words. While they came from the master's (達者) mouth (口), the words were false. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 16 strokes (26 total). Kunyomi: umagaodoru. Meaning: horse jumping. The form doesn't look anything like a jumping horse. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 5 strokes (15 total). Kunyomi: umaganayamu. Meaning: worried horse. This one doesn't look like a worried horse either. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 食 + 7 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: umagaasewokaku. Meaning: horse sweating. Another kanji that isn't what it looks like. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 石 + 11 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: kuchibirugaookii. Meaning: big-lipped. Don't they also say "lips of a cod" for that? Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 疒 + 10 strokes (15 total). Kunyomi: yamagatakakukewashii. Meaning: precipitous and high mountain. There's another kanji with the same reading - 嵬. That one fits the meaning a bit better, don't you think? Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 風 + 18 strokes (27 total). Kunyomi: ookazenookorusama, odorokihashiru. Meaning: in a manner of strong wind, startled run. Not just one, but two long readings. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 田 + 8 strokes (13 total). Kunyomi: komewotakuwaeruutsuwa. Meaning: vessel to store rice in. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 糸 + 9 strokes (15 total). Kunyomi: murasakiaonohirahimo. Meaning: purple-blue string. You might be familiar with aomurasaki (青紫), but this is murasakiao. The idea is that the color that comes later in the word is dominant, which means that murasakiao is closer to blue. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 瓦 + 18 strokes (23 total). Kunyomi: arukikatagatadashikunai. Meaning: one's walk is wrong. Another kanji from "something is wrong" family. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 疒 + 8 strokes (13 total). Kunyomi: hisashikunaoranaiyamai. Meaning: chronic disease. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 頁 + 7 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: mijikaikamiyahigenosama. Meaning: short hair or beard. So I guess 彡 is hair and 人 part of 不 is beard. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 石 + 4 strokes (9 total). Kunyomi: ishiwofundemizuwowataru. Meaning: stone hopping across water. How does this kanji consume the ones for "hop" and "across"? Interesting fact: my boss' family name is "ishimizu". He'd be happy to see this kanji. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 石 + 4 strokes (9 total). Kunyomi: honetokawatogahanareruoto. Meaning: sound of flesh being ripped from bones. Well that's a long way to say "baribari". 13 syllables. By the way, onyomi is KEKI. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 示 + 7 strokes (12 total). Kunyomi: matsurinosonaemononokazari. Meaning: decoration of festival offering. This one is 13 syllables as well. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 玉 + 13 strokes (17 total). Kunyomi: gyokunoirotsuyanosubarashiisama. Meaning: magnificient color and luster of a jewel. 16 syllables. That's really long. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Setsubun Kaiji, Tensho Jiten.
	Radical: 門 + 2 strokes (7 total). Kunyomi: monokagekarakyuunitobidashitehitowoodorokaserutokinihassurukoe. Meaning: the voice one lets out when being surprised by something suddenly leaping out from cover. Okay, now it's just a sentence. It's 33 syllables, it really is a sentence. If you manage to use this character in writing, you can save 32 characters at once. Its onyomi is WAKU, I wonder if sokuon-onyomi would be WA-... Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. No kunyomi reference.
	Radical: 十 + 5 strokes (7 total). Onyomi: RAKU. Meaning: unknown. This one looks a lot like a steering wheel on the boat. The X in the middle is written in 4 strokes, rather than 2. Sources: Chuu, Goin Henkai, Kaihen Shinkyou.
	Radical: 阜 + 16 strokes (24 total). Same as 隘 (Onyomi: AI). Meaning is narrow, obstruct. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 阜 + 14 strokes (22 total). Onyomi: SHI. Meaning: hill, flat hill. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 阜 + 17 strokes (25 total). Ancient form of 隧 (Onyomi: SUI, ZUI). Meaning: tunnel. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 見 + 30 strokes (37 total). Onyomi: KUCHI, KOTSU. Meaning: strong wind. Judging by shape and meaning, it's probably a variant of . Seal script character for 風 is and you can see how it could change to 見 from it. Daikanwa, Kango and Chuuka all cite Henkai as a reference for this kanji's shape, but Henkai lists a slightly different shape for lower left element. However, it does specify that there might be variants for the form of those elements, so it's probably not a big deal. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 虫 + 6 strokes (12 total). Kunyomi: gurihama. Meaning: to oppose everything. Remember "ouichiza" kokuji? This is another made-up character like that. The reading, "gurihama", probably comes from "gurehama" which is likely derived from "gureru". This is another kanji from "sato no bakamura muda ji zukushi". There are lots of interesting kanji in that book, so we're not going to list any more of them here. Sources: Sato no Bakamura Muda Ji Zukushi.
	Radical: 馬 + 11 strokes (21 total). Onyomi: ROKU. Meaning: wild horse. You first thought probably was, just like 𧗗 kanji is a stand-in for a word, this one must mean 馬鹿, right? But you'd be wrong. We got the word "baka" from sanscrit 無知, which was transliterated as either "baka" or "moha". Original ateji for this word were 莫迦, but were later replaced by 馬鹿. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 馬 + 9 strokes (19 total). Kunyomi: ushiwosakuoto. Meaning: sound of cow getting carved. Well this is a cruel kanji. What's surprising is that it uses 馬 for its radical, but the meaning involves a cow instead. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 艸 + 9 strokes (13 total). Same as 若. Double kusakanmuri version of the familiar kanji. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 火 + 12 strokes (16 total). Onyomi: YOU. Meaning: vigorous light, to shine. At some point, this kanji was adopted in computer encodings as 燁, but its true form is . Now let's talk about the stroke count for this kanji. The version you're looking at comes from Kougi Jiten, and there's something off about the stroke count here. No matter how you look at it, it should be 火+11, isn't it? The truth is, Kougi Jiten was compiled during the reign of the emperor that had a kanji in his name. It is said that authors were too afraid to use his name-kanji in the dictionary, so they omitted a stroke, but still called it 火+12. This phenomenon is called 欠画. Sources: Kougi Jiten.
	Radical: 囗 + 12 strokes (15 total). Onyomi: GYOKU. Meaning: unknown (or same as 玉). That's a total of 5 rectangles you have to draw for this one. If you print 田 with a bold font and only show strokes as outlines, you're going to end up with pretty much this kanji. Nowadays, most dictionaries say that the meaning of this kanji is unknown, but Koten Senjibun says this kanji is the same as 玉. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu, Koten Senjibun.
	Radical: 囗 + 10 strokes (13 total). Kunyomi: toshokan. Meaning: library. This one is kind of a kokuji, but it was only used by Chinese who lived in Japan, so you can't really call it a kokuji. Anyway, this is "library" compressed from 3 characters into 1. It's a mystery where 館 kanji has gone to. Sources: Kokuji no Jiten.
	Radical: 羊 + 3 strokes (9 total). Onyomi: TATSU, TACHI. Meaning: newborn lamb (up to 7 months). If you ask people what this kanji means, they will probably guess it means something like a "big sheep". However, this kanji doesn't mean a big sheep, it means a lamb. It also establishes the timeframe - it can only be applied to lambs that aren't 7 months old yet. Just like 騼, the meaning doesn't match the shape at all, but this one isn't as weird, because its shape is an antonym for its meaning, and we have other kanji like that. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: ノ + 2 strokes (3 total). Onyomi: KA, KO. Meaning: counter. Let's talk about ヶ. You are familiar with it from expressions like 一ヶ月 and so forth, and I'm sure a lot of people find it confusing, like, what is it, a kanji or what? There are 2 theories about the origin of this character. First is that it's the right half of takekanmuri in 箇 (the rest of kanji is omitted). Second is that it's a warped version of 个 (which is itself a simplification of 箇). No matter which explanation you use, the way this character is used and its background both indicate that this is, in fact, a kanji. Sources: Kaisetsu Jitai Jiten.
	Radical: 牙 + 0 strokes (5 total). Onyomi: GA. Kunyomi: kiba. Meaning: fang, tusk. (Note: this explanation makes more sense if you disregard the 2010 Jouyou reform, which declared 牙 to be a Jouyou character.) Here's one character that you see very often. Yet you should (and probably do) know that there's one weird thing about it. The form you see here has just 4 strokes. And this 4-stroke version is the correct "kiba" kanji. 牙 is originally a 4-stroke character, but computer fonts usually display it like it's written with 5 strokes. That's what you probably see when you look at 牙's in this text. However, 牙 is, indeed, written with 5 strokes when it's used as radical or a component of another kanji (雅, 邪). But even that isn't true all the time. The idea is that all the Jouyou kanji containing 牙 have it written with 5 strokes while all the kanji outside Jouyou have it written with 4 (鴉 would have 4-stroked 牙, for instance). As 牙 itself is outside Jouyou, it belongs to the 4-stroke pool as well. (Update: I've migrated to Windows 8 recently, and turns out, it actually fixes the problems with the display of this kanji. That is, 牙 is displayed with 4 strokes, 鴉 has a 4-stroke radical, 雅 and 邪 have 5-stroke radicals... maybe one day this kanji can be removed from the "weird" list after all.) (Update2: I've checked how this article looks in Windows 7, and it has correct form for 牙 in all cases.) Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 山 + 3 strokes (6 total). Ancient form of 危. Reversal of 㞮. Which means there's no more way you could read this kanji as 山々. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 丨 + 8 strokes (9 total). Onyomi: HAN. Meaning unknown. Lay 凸 on it's side and draw it two times for this kanji. Too bad we don't know what it means. Sources: Chuu, Goin Henkai.
	Radical: 凵 + 0 strokes (2 total). Onyomi: KYO, KO. Meaning: rice bowl made from willow. Another troublesome kanji. Looks a lot like 凵 with vertical lines slanted a bit. Actually, it turns out that this kanji is the bottom part of 去 (not 厶) and it also acts as phonetic "KYO". Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 馬 + 18 strokes (28 total). Kunyomi: umagatanoshimu. Meaning: cheerful horse. Another "horse" kanji. Why is this horse cheerful, I have no idea. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 糸 + 17 strokes (23 total). Kunyomi: udemakurisuru. Meaning: to roll up sleeves. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 乙 + 2 strokes (3 total). Same as 也. A lot like せ, but without the vertical line bending. Sources: Dai.
	Radical: 二 + 2 strokes (4 total). Ancient form of 四. So, apparently, this kanji really does exist. It looks like some kid's error. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 二 + 5 strokes (7 total). Ancient form of 亘. This kanji feels so rotating, it should be a form of 回. It does look weird, of course. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 川 + 21 strokes (24 total). Same as 河. That's 9 く's in one kanji. Not bad. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 白 + 20 strokes (25 total). Onyomi: SON. Meaning unknown. Looks a lot like the kanji above this one, but there's an extra く in the top element. Still, we don't know it's meaning, so we have no idea what difference it makes. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 亠 + 13 strokes (15 total). Ancient form of 衰. Bottom part looks like a pine tree. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 馬 + 11 strokes (21 total). Kunyomi: umagaomoi. Meaning: heavy horse. Horses are heavy to begin with, so what is the point of this kanji?... Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 6 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: umagaookii. Meaning: big horse. Once again, horses are big to begin with... Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 4 strokes (14 total). Kunyomi: umagasusumu, umaganemuru. Meaning: moving horse, sleeping horse. Once a horse goes to sleep, it doesn't move. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 9 strokes (19 total). Kunyomi: umagaotonashii. Meaning: obedient horse. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 5 strokes (15 total). Kunyomi: umagatakumashii. Meaning: strong horse. Where's the kanji for "not so strong horse"? Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 8 strokes (18 total). Kunyomi: umagachiisai. Meaning: small horse. That's probably an antonym for 𩢿. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 8 strokes (18 total). Kunyomi: umagasusumanai. Meaning: horse doesn't move. That's some rebellious horse. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 3 strokes (13 total). Kunyomi: umagahayakuyuku. Meaning: horse moves fast. It goes fast somewhere, but where? Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 4 strokes (14 total). Kunyomi: umagaodoroku. Meaning: surprised horse. Now I want to see a horse pulling a surprised face. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 1 stroke (11 total). Kunyomi: umagayuku. Meaning: horse goes. Goes where?... Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 7 strokes (17 total). Kunyomi: umawoarukaseru. Meaning: make horse walk. Looks useful, but how are you supposed to work with a kanji that means a causative verb? Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 氵 + 14 strokes (17 total). Kunyomi: umawoarau. Meaning: to wash a horse. Sure, go ahead. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 示 + 10 strokes (15 total). Kunyomi: umanomatsuri. Meaning: horse festival. Looks like horses have a developed culture as well. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 7 strokes (17 total). Kunyomi: umagaagaku. Meaning: horse struggles. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 馬 + 17 strokes (27 total). Kunyomi: umagahaneru. Meaning: horse leaps. I guess it's that festival horse again. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 口 + 6 strokes (9 total). Kunyomi: waraoutosuru. Meaning: to try to laugh. What a confusing kanji. It doesn't even mean "to be on the verge of laughing", no, it means "to try to laugh" exactly. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 鹿 + 10 strokes (21 total). Kunyomi: otorinoshika. Meaning: deer left behind. Poor thing... Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 大 + 10 strokes (13 total). Kunyomi: kyorokyoromimawasu. Meaning: to look around restlessly. A kanji that includes onomaetopia in its reading. I can't take all these weird kunyomi anymore... Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 頁 + 12 strokes (21 total). Kunyomi: kamigasukunaisama. Meaning: not having much hair. This one doesn't sound like a straight insult. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 辵 + 54 strokes (56 total). Pinyin: biang. Meaning: "bian" from Chinese "bianbianmen" noodles. Here's another kanji with huge stroke count. Reading is only given in Chinese. Some people may think that it should be listed at 54 strokes, not 56, but in Chinese, it's common to use original form of 辵 (and 阜) when counting strokes, so total stroke count often has 2 extra strokes. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 口 + 5 strokes (8 total). Kunyomi: ashiwoburaburasasetekoshikakeru. Meaning: to sit down while swaying one's feet. Here's another "sentence-kanji". Probably a continuation of "kyorokyoro" kanji from before. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. No kunyomi reference.
	Radical: 竹 + 10 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: takenokonotsukemono. Meaning: pickled bamboo shoot. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Dai.
	Radical: 竹 + 11 strokes (17 total). Kunyomi: saitadakedemadafushiwotoranaitake. Meaning: bamboo that has been cut, but didn't have its joints removed. This kanji has 17 syllables in its kunyomi and 17 strokes. It must really like the numer 17. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. Kunyomi reference: Setsubun Kaiji, Goin Henkai.
	Radical: 方 + 5 strokes (9 total). Onyomi: ON (eong). Korean phonetic kokuji. Sources: Jon hanja sajeon, Korean dictionary websites.
	Radical: 力 + 4 strokes (6 total). Onyomi: DON (deong). Korean phonetic kokuji. Sources: Jon hanja sajeon.
	Radical: 囗 + 5 strokes (8 total). Abbreviated form of 図. What's the point of "abbreviating" 図 if you end up with more strokes than before? Sources: Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 山 + 48 strokes (51 total). Same as number 88 on this list? Meaning unknown. Sources: Hokke Sandaibu Nanjiki.
	Radical: 囗 + 8 strokes (11 total). Alternative form of 国. So many sticks in this kanji. I guess the author just went crazy and started drawing them. Mojikyo lists this kanji as "uncategorized", which means it's not a Chinese character originally. Sources: Konjaku Mojikyo.
	Radical: 口 + 15 strokes (18 total). Variant of (Onyomi: GIN). Meaning is "ignorance", "voice that can't be heard". That's a lot of mouths. And with so many mouths, the meaning is "voice that can't be heard"? What's up with that? Sources: Chuu, Goin Henkai, Ryuugan Shukan.
	Radical: 艸 + 10 strokes (16 total). Original form of 莫. 艸 sandwich. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 凵 + 18 strokes (20 total). Same as 𠚘 (Onyomi: TOU). Meaning: type of old container. Still usable. Sources: Hokke Sandaibu Nanjiki.
	Radical: 艸 + 13 strokes (19 total). Original form of 䒼 (Onyomi: KYOKU). Meaning: silkworm nest. It's interesting that if you remove the grass radical, you almost get an ancient form of 曲 (according to Dai). "Almost", because said form also misses 2 horizontal lines in the "enhanced" 凵 radical. Sources: Dai.
	Radical: 田 + 123 strokes (128 total). Ancient form of 䨻 (Onyomi: HOU, BYOU). Meaning: sound/voice of thunder. That's an amazing amount of strokes, but there's no authority for this kanji. Basically, they later replaced 𤴐 elements with your regular 雷. No sources.
	Radical: 几 + 0 strokes (2 total). Onyomi: SHU. Meaning: bird with small wings flies. After getting used to 几 shape, this kanji just looks weird. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 木 + 3 strokes (7 total). Ancient form of 保. マ + 木, easy. Note: originally, the bottom element of this kanji was ホ, but that's because this kanji used to be made with katakana characters. Once it got a proper font variant, it went back to looking normal. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 玉 + 12 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: tamaninitautsukushiiishi. Meaning: beautiful stone, resembling a jewel. It may look like one, but it's no jewel. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu. No kunyomi reference (there are going to be no kunyomi references up until 臽. However, Shinkangorin, where I got the readings from, has the same basic info on these kanji as Dai, Kan and Chuu).
	Radical: 玉 + 12 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: tamanitsuideutsukushiiishi. Meaning: stone, second in beauty to a jewel. If you think about it as "next best thing after a jewel", it kinda makes sense... Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 山 + 2 strokes (5 total). Kunyomi: yamanouenihitogairusama. Meaning: someone stands on top of the mountain. Just as the shape suggests. Maybe it's too redundant. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 食 + 7 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: chawoirerutokinieuniukuawa. Meaning: bubbles that float to the top when you pour tea. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 魚 + 7 strokes (18 total). Kunyomi: honeganodonitsukkaeru. Meaning: bone getting stuck in a throat. I wish someone would make a "cake getting stuck in a throat" kanji. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 羽 + 4 strokes (16 total). Kunyomi: massugunitenkuutakakutobiagaru. Meaning: to fly up straight into the air. You have to admit, "tenkuu takaku" sounds much more awesome than your usual "sora takaku". Actually, when would you use this kanji, anyway? Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 犭 + 8 strokes (11 total). Kunyomi: toragahitowokamoutosurutokinounarigoe. Meaning: growl tiger lets out when it's about to bite someone. Well, that's a 獰猛 (どうもう) kanji! I wonder what that growl sounds like. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 口 + 14 strokes (17 total). Kunyomi: torinokanashigenakoe. Meaning: sad voice of a bird. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 頁 + 7 strokes (19 total). Kunyomi: atamagaookiisama. Meaning: having a big head. That's a new way to say "kaodekai". Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 辰 + 12 strokes (19 total). Kunyomi: warausama, oowaraisurusama. Meaning: someone laughing, someone laughable. Two readings, and they're totally contradicting each other! When do you use this kanji, anyway? Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 臼 + 2 strokes (8 total). Kunyomi: chiisaiotoshiana, otoshiananiochiru, otoshiananiotosu. Meaning: small trap, to fall in a trap, to drop in a trap. Falling into a trap I can understand, but dropping something or someone else into it? Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 非 + 2 strokes (10 total). Ancient form of 卯 (Onyomi: U). There's another ancient form of 卯 I've already showed you in the beginning of this list: 𩇧. The triangle-looking parts got changed to two horizontal lines each at some point. Basically, it's 非 with 2 more strokes. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 止 + 9 strokes (12 total). Same as (which is original form of 渋). To put it simply, it's the old form of 渋. Most dictionaries list as the true form, but the form listed here is the most faithful to the original seal character. Sources: Setsubun Kaiji.
	Radical: 木 + 4 strokes (8 total). Variant of 機. We've already seen a version with katakana simplification, and I see that version from time to time. I've never seen anyone use hiragana to abbreviate 機, though. Sources: No dictionary sources, but I've seen example usages on "Moji Snap" website..
	Radical: 示 + 9 strokes (13 total?). This is not a kanji, it's a mark called "daofu" (倒福). "Dao" here (倒) means "reverse" and it reads the same as 到, which is how the word "fudao" (福到, to strike luck) has come from. Sources: No dictionary sources.
	Radical: 宀 + 1 stroke (4 total). Same as 宝, or abbreviation of 宣. There's so much empty space in this kanji, it feels like someone forgot to finish writing it. Sources: Chuu.
	Radical: 丶 + 3 strokes (4 total). Variant of 第. This is an extremely popular variant kanji and I'm sure everyone knows it. With that said, it's not in the JIS standart, which is why it isn't used in computers. (Note: you can't really call it totally unusable, since this kanji did get a place in Unicode: 㐧. Still, hardly anyone uses it.) Sources: Shinkangorin.
	Radical: 十 + 4 strokes (6 total). Original form of 癸 (Onyomi: KI, Kunyomi: mizunoto). That's the element of 𦮙 we've seen earlier. You'd never guess the radical for it if I didn't tell you. Sources: Dai, Kan, Chuu.
	Radical: 己? + 0 strokes (3 total). Ancient form of 己. This looks like 5 on a segment indicator. I guess 己 was facing the other way in ancient times. Sources: Koten Senjibun, Kango Daijiten.
	Radical: ？ + 0 strokes (1 total). Ancient form of 堆. I always get the feeling I've seen this one somewhere. No sources are given from this point.
	Radical: 臼 + 49 strokes (56 total). Same as 𠔻 (Onyomi: SEI).
	Radical: 臼 + 53 strokes (60 total). Same as 𠔻 (Onyomi: SEI). I heard this is how 𠔻 is written in Kango Daijiten.
	Radical: 丨 + 4 strokes (5 total). Part of the next kanji.
	Radical: 山 + 5 strokes (8 total). Onyomi: HACHI, HATSU. Meaning: unknown (buddhism kanji). Another buddhism kanji. We've seen an example of one of these earlier, and just like that one, this character is used for charms and incantations.
	Radical: 匚 + 18 strokes (20 total). Ancient form of 舗. This radical has even more lines than 𠥓 does. This just makes the character even more confusing.
	Radical: 口 + 16 strokes (19 total). Onyomi: RO. Meaning: has no meaning on its own. There's nothing weird about this kanji, yet it doesn't have a meaning on its own. I tried looking for words that have this kanji and found this one: 呼嚧(KORO). That word is supposed to represent laughter. So, it means that laughter sounds like "korokoro"? This sounds nothing like laughter, if you ask me.
	Radical: 人 + 3 strokes (5 total). Ancient form of 霒 (Onyomi: IN, ON). Meaning: cloudy. Looks a lot like kanji 15 on this list, but the last stroke bends differently, making it a separate kanji. You have to be very careful when writing these kanji. What's worse, every dictionary has their own version of this kanji. Daikanwa's version looks different from Kango's and so on. Finally, Ministry of Justice list actually has yet another form. This is all extremely confusing. You're better off not thinking hard about it.
	Radical: 人 + 4 strokes (6 total). Ancient form of 丹. Was used alongside ancient form of 青, 𡷉.
	Radical: ノ? + 1 stroke (2 total). Ancient form of 乂 (Onyomi: KAI, Kunyomi: karu). There's a U and an inverse U in this one.
	Radical: ? + 0 strokes (1? total). Ancient form of 丁 / Same as 丶. Once again, what the heck are we looking at? Do you write it with one stroke? Do you even call this a stroke? In short, we don't know its radical, its stroke count or how to write it. A mysterious kanji, this one is.
	Radical: 風 + 39 strokes (48 total). Same as 風. 風 is one of the top kanji when it comes to the number of alternate forms.
	Radical: 一 + 12 strokes (13 total). Onyomi: HYOU. Meaning: unnecessary. Remember when we had a kanji for nosebleed? This one is the same. There's no real point in writing the word in one character.
	Radical: 身 + 12 strokes (19 total). Onyomi: SHI. Kanji used by ninjas of Edo period.
	Radical: 亅 + 7 strokes (8 total). Ancient form of 争. That's 事 with top part cut off. This kanji is really confusing. Sure, it looks like 争, but that just makes it even more confusing. It looks like someone hastily wrote 事 and it turned out like this.
	Radical: 一 + 3 strokes (4 total). Original form of 乏. Mirrored version of the original form of 正.
	Radical: ノ + 3 strokes (4 total). Same as 丘. The form is a bit different from the original kanji. But what was the point in creating this version? Why does it have to bend several times like this? By the way, Daikanwa version of this kanji bends the 3rd stroke slightly differently.
	Radical: 人 + 6 strokes (8 total). Ancient form of 虞 (Onyomi: GU, Kunyomi: osore). Well, this looks nothing like 虞. By the way, you might not be familiar with 虞 itself, but it's on Jouyou list and is featured in Kanken level 2 exam.
	Radical: 止 + 3 strokes (6 total). Ancient form of 癶 (Onyomi: HATSU, Kunyomi: yuku).
	Radical: 止 + 3 strokes (6 total). Same as 𣥂 (Onyomi: TATSU, Kunyomi: fumu). Probably written similarly to the previous kanji. Looks a bit like the seal script form of 歩. However, Daikanwa features a much blockier version of this kanji. The difference is pretty significant, actually, it's possible that this kanji, in fact, is the seal script version of 歩, while Daikanwa version () is probably the same as 𣥂.
	Radical: 木 + 1 stroke (5 total). Onyomi: SHI. Meaning: to stop, something stops. Looks like 本.
	Radical: 亅 + 3 strokes (4 total). Ancient form of 垂 or 殺. This one doesn't look too weird, but in Daikanwa, this kanji looks like this: 𠄒. This makes it look like 禾 with one stroke omitted.
	Radical: 亅 + 3 strokes (4 total). Ancient form of 州. Again, this one isn't too weird, but it feels like a transitional form, which is why it's here.
	Radical: 辵 + 23 strokes (30 total). Same as 鷸 (Onyomi: ITSU, Kunyomi: shigi). That's a nice decoration for the kanji, but it doesn't change it's meaning at all. 辵 here is the original form of the road radical.
	Radical: 曰 + 1 stroke (5 total). Onyomi: OU, YAKU. Meaning: to take something. Another pretty simple kanji. Looks a lot like 甲.
	Radical: 田 + 0 strokes (5 total). Onyomi: SOU. Meaning: unknown / ancient form of 由. Daikanwa provides the onyomi, but states that the meaning is unknown. Zdic.net claims that it's an ancient form of 由. At any rate, that's one weird kanji. User アーリマン told me that 曱甴 means a cockroach.
	Radical: ノ + 5 strokes (6 total). Onyomi: HEI. Meaning: onomaetopia for a gunshot. That's 兵 with one stroke missing.
	Radical: ノ + 5 strokes (6 total). Onyomi: HOU. Meaning: onomaetopia for a gunshot. If we combine previous kanji with this one, we get 乒乓, which is read "pinpon". This means either onomaetopia for a gunshot, or ping-pong.
	Radical: 犭 + 7 strokes (10 total). Kunyomi: kokorogasemai. Meaning: short-tempered. Now this is a very common phrase. I mean, 心が狭い人. I guess you can now write is simply as 狷人.
	Radical: 乙 + 0 strokes (1 total). Ancient form of 隠. Another one-stroke character. 𠃋's 90-degree relative?
	Radical: 韋 + 8 strokes (17 total). Kunyomi: semarikuruaranami. Meaning: impending wave. If this happens, you're in trouble.
	Radical: 匚 + 7 strokes (9 total). Kunyomi: funegashizumu. Meaning: boat sinks. And this is what happens when the wave from the previous kanji reaches your boat.
	Radical: 亅 + 1 stroke (2 total). Onyomi: CHOU. Meaning: to hang, male genitals. This one can be found in Chuuka Jikai. Said to be an erroneous form of 𠄏.
	Radical: 爿 + 0 strokes (4 total). Ancient form of 爿 (Onyomi: SHOU). Means a piece of wood. This kanji looks like 凹 on its side with a stroke in the middle erased.
	Radical: 夕 + 3 strokes (6 total). Ancient form of 多. This looks like some stylization of 多.
	Radical: 十 + 4 strokes (6 total). Same as 卍. Same as 卍, but this one actually is the correct version, which is why you often see it in dictionaries.
	Radical: 水 + 4 strokes (8 total). Onyomi: EI. Meaning unknown. Water inside a well? Fitting a 4-stroke water shape inside the well enclosure is really hard. Here's what I'm talking about: 丼𣲜. See how large the space inside the "well" looks in the first kanji, compared to the second? That's a nice optical illusion.
	Radical: 火 + 24 strokes (28 total). Same as 燧 (Onyomi: SUI). We've already talked about . This is the original form of that character, but is more often known as a variant. It's still considered usable form. Note that the side elements are different than in . These are 𨺅. By itself, is a kanji with FUU onyomi and meaning "space between hills". 𨺅, on the other hand, has no meaning by itself.
	Radical: 戈 + 9 strokes (13 total). Ancient form of 矛. Doesn't look like 矛 at all. While 戈 can have the same meaning as 矛, what is going on in the middle? How do you even write that part? This kanji can be found in Daikanwa, but it doesn't have any information about it.
	Radical: 女 + 7 strokes (10 total). Onyomi: TEI. Kunyomi: imouto. Meaning: little sister. Well, since little sister is the female version of 弟, it makes perfect sense.
	Radical: 土 + 33 strokes (36 total). Same as 麤 (Onyomi: SO, Kunyomi: arai). When elements of a kanji are arranged the way they are in the 麤 kanji, the kanji is called "品-type" (hinjiyou). This one, however, adds an extra 土 and throws the balance off. You fail, kanji!
	Radical: 土 + 16 strokes (19 total). Ancient form of 寅. That's some weird shape.
	Radical: 土 + 18 strokes (21 total). Onyomi: GYOU, GU. Meaning: foolish. The top 6 mouths form another kanji, read as KEN with the meaning of "noisy". So is the noisy ground foolish? I don't get it.
	Radical: 土 + 19 strokes (22 total). Kunyomi: kusakigachiwohattehaeteru. Meaning: grass is growing on the ground. This one is a pretty specific verb, but it can also be used as a fancy version of "growing".
	Radical: 土 + 16 strokes (19 total). Ancient form of 壹 (Onyomi: ICHI, Kunyomi: hitotsu). Bottom part looks like 亞, but not quite. Also, there's some sort of a 吉-like element stuck in the middle. What a weird kanji.
	Radical: 囗 + 1 stroke (4 total). Ancient form of 起. Why would you choose a big enclosure like 囗 if you're just going to write one stroke inside? So tasteless.
	Radical: 囗 + 3 strokes (6 total). Ancient form of 良. This kanji looks a bit different in Daikanwa. It has 冂 for enclosure, and 亖 for inside element. It's listed as 囗+4. Anyway, it's a weird kanji. The middle part kind of looks like 三, but then you notice that line lengths are all wrong.
	Radical: 囗 + 4 strokes (7 total). Ancient form of 目. That think in the middle is the eye?
	Radical: 囗 + 2 strokes (5 total). Same as 四. 西 with first stroke omitted. It's not much different from 四, just a few strokes jutting out.
	Radical: 子 + 15 strokes (18 total). Onyomi: KYUU. Meaning unknown. We'll never know what 6 children mean as a kanji.
	Radical: 子 + 19 strokes (22 total). Onyomi: SHUU, KYUU. Meaning unknown. It shouldn't be surprising that we don't know the meaning of this kanji, since we don't know the meaning of its base kanji.
	Radical: 子 + 7 strokes (10 total). Onyomi: KAI, KE. Meaning: ugly. You'd think this kanji would be a form of "kirai", but it turns out to be a form of "minikui".
	Radical: 子 + 8 strokes (11 total). Kunyomi: shisongasakaeru. Meaning: prospering descendants. Hey, that's a positive kanji!
	Radical: 女 + 24 strokes (27 total). Onyomi: FU. Meaning: rabbit kitten. Okay, I can see 3 rabbits (兔), but no kids (子). Also, this kanji is unbalanced.
	Radical: 宀 + 15 strokes (18 total). Onyomi: RU. Meaning unknown. This looks like someone decided to add stuff to 婁 kanji, but what is this supposed to be? An unclear kanji with an unclear meaning.
	Radical: 宀 + 15 strokes (18 total). Same as 塞. A kanji with four ヨ's.
	Radical: 夂(夊) + 0 strokes (3 total). Onyomi: KA, KE. Meaning: to walk in big steps, to step over something. The weird part is the one with a round corner.
	Radical: 口 + 7 strokes (10 total). Ancient form of 吝 (Onyomi: RIN, Kunyomi: kechi). I wonder what those 3 strokes at the bottom are supposed to mean.
	Radical: 又 + 9 strokes (11 total). Onyomi: SHIN. Meaning: to pull. This kanji has both Ｅ and ヨ. But the shape that separates them is even weirder.
	Radical: 又 + 2 strokes (4 total). Onyomi: SOU. Meaning: nail (fingernail), some suggest this may be a form of 爪. This is 叉 with one extra dot. There are other kanji that use this one as an element, for instance, 蚤 (のみ) .
	Radical: 匚 + 23 strokes (25 total). Same as (Onyomi: HEN). Meaning: bamboo table for 4 containers. Still usable.
	Radical: 丨 + 5 strokes (6 total). Onyomi: KEN. Meaning: to hear. It looked weird, so I put it here.
	Radical: 凵 + 4 strokes (6 total). Onyomi: KOU. Meaning unknown. Looks like a failed attempt to write 回.
	Radical: 凵 + 4 strokes (6 total). Ancient form of 甘. This kanji looks like someone pulled the top off 凹 and then decided to add 一 for good measure.
	Radical: 凵 + 15 strokes (17 total). Onyomi: TOU. Meaning: ancient vessel. I've never seen this surrounding element before.
	Radical: 自 + 1 stroke (7 total). Ancient form of 白. That's a 自 kanji, held up on a stick...
	Radical: 禾 + 0 strokes (5 total). Onyomi: KEI, GAI. Meaning: to be confined. Another unfinished kanji. Maybe the way the top stroke stops halfway is what gives the kanji its meaning?
	Radical: 米 + 2 strokes (8 total). Ancient form of 蹯 (Onyomi: HAN). Meaning: animal's sole, animal's footprints. We've seen this kind of surround element in , but this one is a bit different. It's a mirrored version of 匚 with a horizontal stroke of 米 going through it.
	Radical: 水 + 0 strokes (4 total). Onyomi: SA. Meaning unknown. Yet another unfinished kanji.
	Radical: 戈 + 2 strokes (6 total). Onyomi: SHOU. Meaning unknown. That's 戈 with two extra strokes added.
	Radical: 亠 + 13 strokes (14 total). Ancient form of 棄. What a complicated kanji... too many strokes!
	Radical: 一 + 6 strokes (7 total). Ancient form of 終. So much empty space in this one.
	Radical: 玉 + 0 strokes (4 total). Original form of 玉. 玉 used to miss that dot in the bottom in ancient times. I guess you can call it the true form of 玉. This form isn't that old, so you can still use it.
	Radical: 爪 + 20 strokes (24 total). Ancient form of 寿. At first glance, it looks like the right side of 𡆓. But if you look closely, you'll note an extra stroke at the top.
	Radical: 艸 + 5 strokes (9 total). Original form of 芝. While the bottom part looks like with an extra stroke below, the reality is (again) different. It's kinda hard to explain what it is, so please, look for an explanation yourself.
	Radical: 灬 + 14 strokes (18 total). Onyomi: NETSU. Meaning unknown. There are too many dots in this kanji.
	Radical: 田 + 4 strokes (9 total). Original form of 画. A surrounded 田. I guess it means a map of a protective fence around the field.
	Radical: 灬 + 5 strokes (9 total). Onyomi: KOU, KYOU. Meaning: used in location names. Again, way too many dots.
	Radical: 匕 + 7 strokes (9 total). Original form of 𠤗 (Onyomi: GI). 𠤗 itself means doubt (same as 疑). This version is notable for having an inverted 匕 element.
	Radical: 乙 + 0 strokes (1 total). Same as 𠃊.
	Radical: 一 + 3 strokes (4 total). Same as (Onyomi: HATSU). Meaning is thick growth of plants. Looks a lot like ホ. However, ホ doesn't really have a block type version, so it can't be used as a substitute for this kanji.
	Radical: 乙 + 2 strokes (3 total). Abbreviated form of 止. I have no idea why you would call it an abbreviation.
	Radical: 亅 + 0 strokes (1 total). Same as 𠄌. This form can be found in Shindaijiten.
	Radical: 乙 + 1 stroke (2 total). Variant of 口. Looks like a triangle. In 24x24 pixel fonts looks exactly like a triangle.
	Radical: 丶(?) + 4 strokes (5 total). Variant of 斎. Can you think of any possible way kanji form could warp like this?
	Radical: 耳 + 3 strokes (9 total). Onyomi: TOU. Meaning: big ear. Did you think it would be "small ear" after you read about 羍 (you did, right?). However, this one is exactly what it looks like, a big ear. You've been double-tricked.
	Radical: 大 + 4 strokes (7 total). Upper kanji onyomi: GUN. Meaning: big. Lower kanji onyomi: HA. Meaning: big. This time we're dealing with a set of 2 kanji. These are from Shinkangorin. What's the difference, you might ask? Well, the upper one has its meaning written in hiragana, and the lower one with a kanji. And... that's it.
	Upper: Radical: 米 + 8 strokes (14 total). Onyomi: RIN. Meaning: water so clean and transparent, you can see rocks through it. Lower: Radical: 米 + 9 strokes (15 total). Onyomi: RIN. Meaning: water so clean and transparent, you can see rocks through it. Another kanji set. These two have identical readings (including pinyin) and identical meanings. Their only difference is in that one stroke. And despite all this, they're NOT considered forms of each other, but actual, separate kanji. How is that even possible?
	Radical: 自 + 1 stroke (7 total). Same as 首 and 頁. Ancient form of 百. This kanji serves as an alternate form of 3 other characters at once. I like to think about it as 百 + 1 stroke.
	Radical: 臼 + 22 strokes (29 total). Onyomi: HOU, KYOU. Meaning: supported by three legs. Now this is a complex kanji. Go ahead, try to remember the writing at first glance.
	Radical: 禾 + 19 strokes (24 total). Same as 𠁃. Onyomi unknown. This is an amalgamation of various characters. It's a rare kanji in a sense that its reading is unknown, even though we know its meaning.