A kanji with 108 strokes


I came across this kanji

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EfVh8.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EfVh8.jpg)

It is said to read ぼんのう、meaning worldly desires and comprising 108 strokes. I
am curious if it does exist because after some searching I couldn't find any
more information about this.

Almost every single image I found about this kanji is apparently the same
original image with some editing. Every source I found says basically the same
thing, its meaning, reading, and stroke count.

Searching for kanjis with highest numbers of strokes, the most knowledgeable
ones seem to be this [interesting
compilation](http://nihonshock.com/2009/10/crazy-kanji-highest-stroke-count/)
and a Wikipedia page talking about the kanji
[taito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito_\(kanji\)), which is written with
84 strokes and thus _the most graphically difficult character_. No one is
really talking about this kanji in question.

Can anyone point me to any other resource related to this kanji?




Your only question appears to be "does it exist?", and the answer to that is
obviously yes, because someone has created it. Other than that, it is not
listed in any dictionaries and has no historical usage. It appears to have
been created recently (the earliest I could find was
[this](http://twitpic.com/9mld1k), from 2012) based on the idea that there are
108 'worldly desires' and the kanji presumably incorporates some of them.

Theoretically anyone can create a legitimate kanji, as there is no standard or
language authority that would prevent it. The only problem is getting it into
dictionaries, which is a a difficult prospect these days as it would probably
have to be incorporated into unicode.




This is a work of art [by the Twitter user
@shoshokaki](http://twitpic.com/9mld1k). The 108 strokes represents
completeness in Buddhism.

