What's Your Favourite Character?

[Entropy_Rising]

My hands down favorite character is 智. I've always loved the 知 of 知道， where knowledge or awareness is seen as the spoken word which pierces through the BS like an arrow. Wisdom is knowledge that illuminates, hence the addition of the sun to 知 makes 智. How elegant! If I ever give my kids Chinese names, the first syllable will be 智 for all of them. Unless, of course, this character can't be used in names.

My second favorite character, incidentally, is 慧 which is used along with my first favorite character to write 智慧. In addition to being aesthetically pleasing (to my eye at least), I again admire how concrete the character 慧 can make a concept as abstract as wisdom: my etymology may be wrong, but I think it's met to represent two hands grasping a broom and sweeping up the dust inside one's 心. And even if that etymology's wrong, that's probably how I'm going to see that character from now on anyways.

[Strawberries513]

Looks and meaning wise, my favorite by far is 樂　But when it comes to writing, my favorite is 常

[bhchao]

忍, because it symbolizes an inner quality (heart) that endures hardship (tough as a blade). Determination to persevere and succeed in other words.

[toads]

I like 戴 because it just feels like a proper character, and makes me quite proud when I manage to remember it

[王火星..]

I find 京剧 to be really to write, even though they're two characters..

[Ari 桑]

Oh yeah, I'm a huge fan of 戴 too, and anything with a similar construction to 成

[natalie]

I keep a special place for 參.

It's just perfect... and has a quality of a talisman. the holy three...

[Lán Màitè]

Darn, Strawberries beat me to it! I was going to say fei 非常 written together is very nice looking. I also think 弱 is very cool looking. I like the double characters. I also like 前. The 刂 radical is one of my favorites. ^^

[YangDizi]

My favourite 汉字／漢字 (hànzì) is one which does not actually exist but is a combination of 招财进宝／招財進寶 (zhāo cái jìn bǎo) meaning "to let riches and treasures come in". It often appears on gifts and decorations:

[atitarev]

Every period has a different favourite hanzi for me. I felt a little proud when I learned to write by hand without looking up character 赢.

I am not even trying to memorise hanzi as complex as the one Yangdizi posted.

[Nikar]

I love 神 and 龍, both are very complicated looking!

[丽丽_Jinlei]

Hmm. Maybe 我 . I also like writing 欢 。

[cathay]

殇 I like both its look and pronunciation.

[Yuchi]

经, I think it's because the right side of it is just fun to write..

[leosmith]

my favorite by far is 樂

oddly similar to my favorite　欒

is this a case of simplified vs traditional?

[Rhubarb]

幕

lil' girl with bunches playing leapfrog

[atitarev]

I love 神 and 龍, both are very complicated looking!

I already said my favourite characters change. My today's favourite character is 一, because it's simple.

[kaifaqu crue]

I really enjoy writing 無 for some reason.

[ABCinChina]

I like to write 為 and 愛 (the traditional versions) because 為 looks very cool and 愛 has a heart symbol in the middle! Not that anybody cares, but thought I'd mention it!

[Danman]

My favourite of the moment is 两, not so much because of aesthetic resonance, as because of personal association : kid sister and myself on the swings way back when.