Kwok wrote:AJRLegits wrote:Double-yu ti eff?
Okay, I have one question: what is the radical of the third one? It looks more like a hiragana.
I've never seen a Chinese character that contained a circle or a triangle...
Also, I found the one with the rain and all the dragons on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character#Rare_and_complex_characters" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>. It says that that character is used in Japanese and it means "the appearance of a dragon in flight".
Weird...
In fact,I don't know much about that either.
Maybe these strange and weird character are really from ancient Chinese(You mentioned the Japanese,however,Japanese characters is re-built/re-created according to Chinese characters).
Indeed,I've never seen that before.Even though I'm coincidently Chinese.
This is not necessarily true, there are far more Japanese inventions than you might imagine. Certainly, this goes beyond slight adaptations of minute details. True, most of them are built on the same principles that Chinese characters are made.
峠
touge, low hills.
働く
hataraku, to labour
榊
sasaki, a type of tree
畑
hatake, agricultural field
辻
tsuji, crossroad
裃
kamishimo, a type of
Shinto priest clothing.
As you can see these characters are encoded, meaning that they are widely used.
hataraku is in fact a very common word in Japanese.
This is not only the case in Japan, as other countries that adapted Chinese writing had to develop some local characters for their use for: 1. things that don't exist in China and thus no character, 2. sounds that cannot be represented using characters.
Following is a list of some characters developed in Korea. (I posted this on the Korean forum a while ago, and I re-post it here plus an additional character at the end.)
乫 갈(
Kal), used in place names
倻 야(
Ja), used in place names
畓 답(
Tap), rice paddle
垈 대(
Tä), construction site/ground
媤 시(
Si), marriage (for a woman)
乶 볼(
Pol), used for phonetic transcriptions
乷 살(
Sal), used for phonetic transcriptions
兯 한(
Han), used for phonetic transcriptions
乭 돌(
Dol), used for phonetic transcriptions