Hanziyu: The (cursed) Language of Characters 

Corrections: 1. 爱 does not break down into a 心. This was from the traditional characters, which itself doesn't break down into 友. 2. 汉子 should be 汉字。Can thank the pinyin keyboard suggesting the wrong one to me every time for that.

I feel like this is extra cursed because of how logical it all is. Every step makes a completely absurd amount of sense and yet only makes things worse

this is taking "a picture is worth a thousand words" completely seriously and then deciding to speak emoji

Incredible. Not only did you come up with an unbelievably cursed conlang, you also wrote lyrics for Vivaldi's Winter. Mad respect

Learning actual Mandarin Chinese has never seemed so easy!

as a cantonese native im simultaneously impressed, confused, impressed again, and intimidated. great job, i'm bewildered!

as a native chinese speaker... i must say i am very impressed with how unnecessarily long all the words are 😭

As someone who speaks Mandarin, Hokkien and Cantonese regularly I feel like I'm listening to someone speaking Thai, Korean and Cantonese all at once

Public Health Warning: If you are a Chinese speaker, watching this video may cause auditory discomfort, existential crisis, degraded language function, loss of sanity, and severe EMOTIONAL DAMAGE. Viewer discretion advised. -- People's Health Comitte (Probably)

For anyone that didn’t notice, the conlang had the background music of “Winter” by Vivaldi, and is the bee movie script

7:30 “that was an example of a classic linguistics technique called lying” FACTS

This is a perfectly logical system and I see absolutely no problem with this whatsoever. Thank you Eleanor for fixing Chinese.

Wow! Thank you for solving the problem of mandarin speakers knowing how to speak a word, but not knowing how to write it by making it impossible to speak a word without knowing how it's written

THIS is what a true cursed conlang is, if this doesnt win (or whatever the competition is for) then i give up

Who hurt you? Did the grammar hurt you? 10/10 cursedness. I'm sending this to my Chinese speaking friends.

I have opened Pandora's box and I now reap the consequences

The classical linguistics technique of lying is so slept on and I’m so glad you brought it up

I have a PhD in Chinese phonology, and this makes perfect sense. Beautiful

As a native Mandarin speaker, this is pain 🥲

When the "solution" is so bad you may as well keep the "problem"

1:35 One cool thing is that even though 又 means again, the character original represents the right hand, and the character 友 meaning friend, is actually 又+ 又, so hand in hand.

I'm just imagining how extra confusing this would be to a Japanese speaker.

This was beautiful. I loved how it's basically like looking at a different language's usage of the Latin script and saying, "It probably sounds like this," but worse (read better).

Oh no… I am a native mandarin speaker and an understander of Shanghainese, this is gonna be a wild ride lmao

somehow i hate how this all works out, this is an idea i had in my head when i was in chinese school would make 言文 texts only slightly less tolerable

Original Mandarin: one sound for one word Hanziyu: NINE SOUNDS for 能 Also, as native Mandarin speaker, Hanziyu does sound like Mandafin... Cursed af 😂

petition to make eleanormally say the entire bee movie script in hanziyu

This is truly cursed but I'm loving how logical it all is.

you just pushed hanzi logic of radicals and orthography to a whole other level, it's just unhealthy. lol

it is hilarious to me that this is doing what Hangul does backwards with .00000001% the efficiency, amazing job!

So you basically made a horrible mix of Ithkuil and Kay(f)bop(t)

I adore the soundtrack, thank you for yoinking the music straight from my childhood

I'm crying. The music is fun and you keep cheerfully explaining this conlang, but I'm crying.

As a Chinese, you successfully made me unable to speak my native language after watching this video. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!🤣.

I love the chaotic energy radiated from this video all the way from the beginning to end

This language is absolutely cursed, as a Chinese I can prove it, and I'm loving it. The pronunciation somehow creates a near uncanny valley effect, like if someone remix mandarin into the style of that “Everywhere at the end of time” album. 谢谢你的研究！真的超棒，我要学会了用来加密通话，笑死。

this is absolutely glorious truly the platonic ideal of a cursed language

What a treat, I am so glad for the second circus because it has given us gems like this

oh my gosh "strokeme" is such a beautiful word, I'm in love

When you said the full name of the language, my eyes opened wide as I realized what was happening. God bless you for whatever comes next, and thank you for your repeated use of the ramen character. When I continue this video, I look forward to hearing you say it in 汉字语.

I love how it sounds like I'm listening to vietnamese ASMR. Amazingly done brav❤️🔥🔥

This feels like almost an exploration of a Gödel number for every character in Chinese characters. Love it.

As someone who studied Kanji and the radicals, this is indeed cursed. Hanziyu wins the cursed cIrcus, and the conlanglympics. Good job! It is pain.

every day i see a new conlinguistic barrier broken, and i shed tears of joy. what will conlinguists do next

7:30 Ah yes, my favorite linguistic technique

Hamburger is 汉堡 (han fortress) because "Burg" is the German word for fortress or walled city, which was directly translated.

I completely lost what you were saying about halfway through, I love it.

For the first video you’ve shared this is scarily well-done. Also the style gives veeeery similar vibes to the winner from last year, big ups for the complete onslaught of information thats still comprehensible and seems so cursed but in the way assembly code is cursed. *applause*

I feel like i have stumbled upon secret knowledge that i was not meant to know.

When you said “they should’ve been speaking all languages write” I knew I was in for a wild ride

This is actually really good, I enjoyed this video, great job, and good luck!

I understood a good half, and that half terrifies me to my soul. Great video!

The greatest thing is that any of the Chinese classics can be read directly in this language.

As a lyingologist myself, I approve of this tonal inventory

this is literally the greatest video i have ever seen. this is the best thing ever. i love it.

This is beautiful, you seriously have a talent at presentation

Oh my god, this is epic. Like, this is literally awesome.

Amazing, someone finally made Chinese² - me, a Chinese person

This left me emotionally scarred. 10/10 would conglang again.

I'm halfway through this video wondering to myself "How the hell does anyone in China even manage to read?" And then remembering 1. A video where native Japanese speakers on the street struggled read Kanji and 2. Every time I see the word "bourgeoisie"

I got lost about 7 minutes but this was an experience.

what chinese sounds like to non chinese speakers:

“the four cardinal directions” i hope you will attend my funeral, this killed me

As a Chinese college student, this video hurts my brain. It's basically a phonetic language version of mandarin, just likes Korean.

漢字語 (pronounced [hän.tɕˀä.ʌ̹] in Korean diction) actually means Sino-Korean vocabulary in Korean. As a Korean who knows thousands of Chinese Characters, this feels cursed lmao

I got cancer from this, keep it up!

This was such a fun video to watch! It made me feel like I was 14 watching conlang critic for the first time, and by the end of the video I had such a stupid grin on my face :,,)) great stuff

Ah kanji, the sole reason why I still feel like a toddler trying to read anything in japanese even after almost a decade of studying the language.

I shall patiently await for all your videos to come. :)

Incredibly cursed conlang, I was wheezing by the end of it. I hope you win because my god, this deserves it!

this language is radical

Your choice of music throughout the video is impeccable!

the most cursed part of this is that it actually works. i love it.

THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THIS VIDEO MADE ME FEEL SOMETHING

I’m telling you this is a video that everyone has to see at least once in their life

native Chinese speaker here, that super complicated word that is composed of the bunch of "之穴心馬系月" stuff is actually pronounced biang but it isn't actually type-able due to how complex it is also the last bit that was read in hanziyu is actually an excerpt from idk where but goes along the lines of "according to the laws of flight, bees should not be able to fly. their wings are simply to small to lift their chunky bodies. but bees still fly because they don't care about things that humans consider impossible" (isn't a line by line translation because i'm too unbothered to go back to check but as a general reference yes this is accurate enough)

土 and 士 would sound the same in Hanziyu, as would 八 and 人, and 目 and 且.

Im suprised your channel is under 300 subscribers. It deserves deffinetly 100k

……….holy shit this is by far the most cursed hanzi Conglang I have ever seen

i love the "i dunno" tone and "strokeme" XD

omg pronouncing the characters as they're spelled would be crazy

I think you created a code for Chinese dissidents...

Really appreciating the hanziyu reading of the opening of the Bee Movie

top 10 videos that made me go "oh my god" out loud the most. great job. "strokeme :)" elevated me to a separate plane of existence.

this video pissed me off, I hope whoever made this conlang is happy with what they've brought upon the world.

I have never seen a more beautiful language this is incredible

hongkonger here, this is absolutely brilliant, had me laughing half the video

As a Mandarin speaking person, this conlang broke my brain. Also it's interesting how this language has low information/syllable density. Mandarin has relatively high syllable density, where few syllables can express a whole sentence, but in Hanziyu it can take more than 10 syllables to say a noun.

1:20 There is a story behind the mess in the right. A common theory of its origin is that a student scholar once paid for his noodles with some sick calligraphy in lieu of actual money.

Well, if you define a "friend" as a person who you would like to see or talk to "again" you can kinda see how they are connected

sounds Vietnamese, Thai, and some Chinese dialects all smashed together

This is beyond clever love it

I hadn’t even realized how small the channel was because of the editing quality, great video! The 草书 in the thumbnail intrigued me thinking it was going to be some written system being wacky but then it was so much more cursed than I imagined lmao. Also trans rights

This video is like reading the entire car manual and understanding combustion in an engine to a physics degree of understanding to drive a car to the store….

This is my favourite cursed conlang circus 2 submission I've seen so far🤩

as a chinese person, i am spiraling into madness. beautiful video. thank you

This is your first video??? It’s iconic, it’s everything

Bro the music in this video gave me such a nostalgia trip. Especially rare to hear the super monkey ball trax!

As someone who speak Cantonese and mandarin, Absolute cursed video from top to bottom, including the bee movie script. Great work

To all the non-chinese speaking audience, just memorize the words for stuff in standardized chinese. Most people know how to speak it. The explanations in here is like what latin is to English, it's the core of what makes the words the words, and maybe helps you understand dialects a little better, but note absolutely necessary to be able to communicate 😂 dont worry too much