The rarest traditional Chinese characters

The rarest traditional Chinese characters are red, cat, spring, music, yuan, rub, ember, new moon, jade, poem, glass, beauty, singing, meow, eating, pupil, season and seeking.

Traditional Chinese characters are a font form of Chinese characters and are called "traditional Chinese characters" in European and American countries. Generally speaking, it refers to the Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes it refers to the whole Chinese character regular script and official script writing system before the Chinese character simplification movement. Traditional Chinese has a history of more than two thousand years. Until 1956, it was the standard Chinese character used by Chinese people all over the world.

In the history of China, from ancient times to the Western Han Dynasty, there were significant differences between official standard fonts and modern traditional Chinese characters. It was not until the official script prevailing in the Eastern Han Dynasty appeared in the Qin Dynasty that it was closer to the modern traditional Chinese characters. Compared with all kinds of simplified characters used spontaneously by the people, the standardized Chinese characters promulgated by the court through compiling the "character book" have official authority.

Characteristics of traditional Chinese characters

1. Numerous strokes: Traditional Chinese characters are more complicated, with numerous strokes, and the structure of many words is more complicated, which requires high writing skills and comprehensive ability.

2. Rich fonts: Traditional Chinese characters have rich fonts and many changes in strokes and glyphs, so the writing of traditional Chinese characters needs to be artistic.

3. Rich traditional culture: Traditional Chinese characters have a long tradition in history, and their writing forms and usage are closely related to the traditional culture of China, so they can reflect rich traditional culture.

4. Different writing methods: There are great differences between traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters in writing methods. The writing of traditional Chinese characters requires more strokes and changes, and requires writers to have higher skills and patience.