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A Complex Character (over 50 strokes!)

Lamby   May 31st, 2009 3:55a.m.

Can we add the character "biang" to the mix?
(see the character "biang" in all its might and glory here: http://twitpic.com/6bjuo)

Tortue   May 31st, 2009 7:09a.m.

This characters is suposed to be a fake one, create recently by the tenants.

Nicki   May 31st, 2009 11:42a.m.

Hmmm...

Tortue   May 31st, 2009 2:49p.m.

...but nicki is also a fan of it :p

Tortue   May 31st, 2009 2:50p.m.

@Lamby : The "writable" version of Biang is : 梆

itsalljustaride   May 31st, 2009 10:14p.m.

There are actually all kinds of characters being invented by Chinese for use in names as a kind of status thing. So much so that the government has gotten annoyed enough to stop accommodating the practice, which they say has gotten out of hand, when they do official documents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2

Lamby   June 1st, 2009 6:30a.m.

Ah, very interesting. Thanks for the feed back.

Lamby   June 1st, 2009 10:28a.m.

So, after some research it turns out 梆 actually is not the "writable" form of "biang" but is the character "bang". ( http://is.gd/Lwl1 )
Nor is the character recent, but was first written somewhere around a thousand years ago when it was created to describe the tasty biang biang mian.
If anyone cares to translate it, here is the enthralling story behind the mystical and wondrous character "biang": http://is.gd/LwZx

nick   June 1st, 2009 10:34a.m.

There's no Unicode for the biang character, nor is biang a proper pinyin. Additionally, it would look and recognize poorly on Skritter with all the strokes being as tiny baby birds' tiny infant eggs. So I don't think we'll work that one in. I'd suggest learning that one outside of Skritter, using the rhyme.

We will add those crazy multi-dragon characters though, just for kicks.

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