The Kanji Kraze

[Katchan6]

@Nagoyankee, hehe yeah.. if i was gonna get a tattoo, i'd probably choose one of those, LOL
@MMM, thats just really ..weird. how do you pronounce 米国 and 豪州?

[Amnell]

My favourite for looks is:
みず
水

I dunno, I just like how angular it is.

Compounds I like are
えい＿＿＿＿＿ご
英語

and
と＿＿＿＿＿＿しょ＿＿＿かん
図書館

Although, that very last one (かん) is a bit of a pain in the ass to write with a brush pen...

[MMM]

good stuff!

I liked strange relationships in kanji.　One stroke means so much...

水　氷

大　犬

小　少

[anrakushi]

Originally Posted by Katchan6

@Nagoyankee, hehe yeah.. if i was gonna get a tattoo, i'd probably choose one of those, LOL
@MMM, thats just really ..weird. how do you pronounce 米国 and 豪州?

I already said how to pronounce 豪州 - ごうしゅう
as for 米国 - べいこく

another kanji i like,

迚
とても／とて - some way or other, very

while very rare it is 国字 - a Japan native character. while you'll probably never see it used, it can be used to say 迚も - とても as in 迚も奇麗だ - very beautiful.

[Amnell]

You know, I think one of my absolute favourite Japanese characters is actually a hiragana....

ゑ

Romanized as "we", but considered obsolete since the WW2 era.

I might start using it in place of the particle へ on my Japanese homework. That's bound to get a quip from my sensei .

[Nagoyankee]

Originally Posted by Amnell

I might start using it in place of the particle へ on my Japanese homework. That's bound to get a quip from my sensei .

No doubt about it! You've gotta be 200 years old to use that one!

But then, if you're a poet or something, you might use it for aesthetic reasons if not in your compos for school.

[anrakushi]

Originally Posted by Amnell

You know, I think one of my absolute favourite Japanese characters is actually a hiragana....

ゑ

Romanized as "we", but considered obsolete since the WW2 era.

I might start using it in place of the particle へ on my Japanese homework. That's bound to get a quip from my sensei .

this old one is pretty cool too:
ゐ

[emiluvsjmusic]

this one coz it looks cool, means beautiful, and its part of my name:

美

[MMM]

As someone who has taught Japanese, as fun as it is to "bring in" those retired characters (and don't get me wrong, I love them, too) making your teacher look goofy and forcing her to explain why this character isn't in use anymore is kind of a low-blow. Yes it exists. No, she wasn't hiding it from you. But it is kind of like spelling "old" as "olde". No, it isn't "wrong", but it doesn't help things.

[emiluvsjmusic]

ゑゐ

those are hiragana?? lol