Chinese Tuesdays: The most complicated (invented) character ever
My teacher broke this down for us in class once but I forgot what it meant until I asked a waiter about it after seeing it on a fat golden pig. It’s a combination of the chengyu 招财进宝 (zhāo cái jìn bǎo, 招財進寶 in traditional characters), used to wish people wealth and prosperity.
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