#come to think of it teng can also be used to literally mean body ache!

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kinda stupid but top 5 漢字? o/

HI this is not a stupid question at all and was very fun to think about while i had dinner

here are my top 5 at the moment

森 - part of 森林 which means forest. i like that its a little pyramid of three 木, the character for wood. it really does look like a forest

the 'biang' of biang biang mian (a popular noodle dish in china). infamous for being so annoying to write that schoolteachers dish it out as punishment to naughty students. one of those rare characters where no matter if it's traditional or simplified script its somehow equally bad

like what is this. while browsing wiki i found this version which i imagine was made to convey 'nobody knows wtf is going on in there'

3. 疼 teng, which is a way of saying love, but its a love with a great tenderness that makes u ache all the time imo (thats how i heard it used growing up anyway). like if u say u 疼 ur little pet, it means u want to dote on it and protect it from everything. a certain power dynamic is implied in the word where one side is the guardian. i like the character because the radical in this character is commonly used for words denoting malady, and it looks like there's little drops of blood coming out of its exterior and interior. to me thats how it feels to love something that way haha

4. 冬 dong, not pronounced the way some of u would think :P the d has a bit of a crisper 't' sound to it. it just means winter. i like that it both looks like a pine tree and a canopy of heaven spilling out waves of snow

5. 哭 ku, this one just means to cry. it really does look like an unhappy little face with tears coming out

thanks for the great question :D