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There are also some extremely complex characters which have understandably become rather rare. According to Joel Bellassen (1989), the most complex Chinese character is / (U+2A6A5) zhe listen (helpinfo), meaning "verbose" and containing sixty-four strokes; this character fell from use around the 5th century. It might be argued, however, that while containing the most strokes, it is not necessarily the most complex character (in terms of difficulty), as it simply requires writing the same sixteen-stroke character long (lit. "dragon") four times in the space for one. Another 64-stroke character is / (U+2053B) zheng composed of xing/xing (lit. "flourish") four times.
What is the most complex Chinese character?
zhe