When I was a kid ¡ª long, long ago ¡ª my friends and I used to flaunt our juvenile erudition by spelling out what was supposedly the longest word in the English language: antidisestablishmentarianism. (Oh wow, the MS Word software just informed me that I spelled it correctly. But don¡¯t ask me what it means.)
Actually, I heard there¡¯s a train station somewhere in Wales whose name is even longer. Written out, it looks like a cat did a tap dance over the keyboard.
But what about kanji? Is there one that can claim to be the longest ¡ª as measured by the number of brush strokes ¡ª and therefore the most intimidating?
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