The character with the most strokes, 172 strokes, is pronounced huang (second tone).

This character is relatively rare and is rarely used by people because it is an ancient character, so we can't type it out on a computer. This character looks like a lot of words formed together and there is no clear explanation for it. Maybe confusion is also an explanation for it, this character looks really complicated.

Strokes, usually dots and lines of various shapes that make up a Chinese character and are uninterrupted, such as horizontal (一), vertical (丨), skimming (丿), pressing (?) and fold (?). etc. It is the smallest unit of continuous strokes that make up the shape of a Chinese character. Stroke sometimes also refers to the number of strokes, as in the case of a character book preceded by an index of Chinese character strokes. In both cases, "笔画" can also be used as "笔划", but it is standardized as "笔画" in Chinese. In addition, brushstrokes also refers to drawings drawn with a pen, which is generally used in ancient books and is not commonly used or used nowadays.

Chinese characters

Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world, with a history of at least 4,000 years. The origin of Chinese characters is about 7,762 years old, and the history of the Jahu carved runic symbols is about 7,762 years old (±128 years), as determined by carbon 14 physics, etc. It is by far the longest continuously used character, and the only one of the major writing systems of the ancient period that has been passed down to the present day, and has been used in all Chinese dynasties as the main official script.