
Here are the 23 hardest Chinese characters selected from Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典, the chinese dictionary edited in Qing dynasty), only very few Chinese have seen these characters, not to mention knowing their pronunciation and meaning... HK Newspaper Mingpao News (明報) found them for us.
1. This is the word "Exorcism"
中文的 "驅魔"...

2. This is the word "noodle"
This is a noodle in Shaan xi.
陝西的特色麵食的寫法...

3. This is the word "one"
In Chinese is "一". but it looks just like scrabble.
這是"一"的 異體字 ...

4. This is the word "cheat"
What a cheater!!
譸 的古字
5. This is the word "flying squirrel"
Explain : A bird in farms is flying squirrel....
田中有鳥叫做 "飛鼠"...
6. This is the word "Flying Dragon"
7. This is the word "River"
You probably can figure this word out because it have waves.
"河" 的古字
8. This is the word "thunder"
What a hard word...
"雷" 的古字...
9. This is the word "love"
Love ?? Hmm... love is really complex....
戀 的古字... 愛情果然很複雜
10. This is the word "mouth"
This is not a triangle, it's a mouth...
口 的異體字. 不是三角形喔
11. This is the hardest character
This character contains 64 strokes, and has the meaning of chatter.
The Unicode is U+2A6A5.
12. This is the word "yard"
This word made by a lot of tree...
這個字是 庭 的古字
13. This is the word "herbaceous"
The word herbaceous , just like a folks.
中文的 "葵".
14. This is the word "Nation"
Combined Chinese words mountain and farm.
“邦“ 的古字
15. This is the word "peace"
What a peace square word.
“祇" 的古字
16. This is the word "commend"
Double door is commend ?
"褒" 的古字...
17. This is the word "lamb"
According to this word, it should be big "sheep", but this is represent "lamb".
"小羊"的古字... 不是寫大羊嗎 哪裡小了 ?
18. This is the word "announce"
Before you announce, please pass the maze...
"亘" = 宣 還真是個迷宮..
19. This is the word "Bad luck"
Just bad luck...
"衰" 的古字.
20. This is the word "celestial"
A man stand on the mountain.
"仙" 的古字
21. This is the word "suffix"
Reasonable!
“丁“ 的古字... 難怪會說 "一丁點兒"
22. This is the word "one"...
Again, this is the word one.
壹 的古字
23. This is the word "Giant"
巨 的古字...
Source: Recordcup