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Taito is mentioned as the kanji/kokuji with the highest stroke count
consisting of 84 strokes in
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito_%28kanji%29).

> Taito is composed of two kanji ("cloud" (雲) and "dragon" (龍) repeated three
> times each for a total of six characters and has the meaning of "the
> appearance of a dragon in flight"). It is also a ligature formed from 䨺
> (tai) and 龘 (tō). It has also been pronounced daito (だいと) and otodo (おとど).

Apparently, there are two variations:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UeEoG.png) ![enter
image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pFS6a.png)

Wikipedia also adds that it may have been used in Japanese surnames but there
are no citations. There is also an equivalent character in traditional
Chinese.

[Nihonshock.com](http://nihonshock.com/2009/10/crazy-kanji-highest-stroke-
count/) says that it might have started as a joke and gained legitimate usage
in history and explains the character as below:

> That’s right, a kanji that’s not in the _daikanwa_. And for that matter, a
> kanji that’s not even in any historical Chinese records.
>
> According to a 2002 newspaper article from Kumamoto, somebody in Japan was
> apparently using this as their personal name as recently as the 1960s. The
> kanji has been included in the most comprehensive computer-based dictionary
> software available (the konjyakumojikyou).

So what is the real story behind this character? Can we say that it is legit
and was it ever used in the history?

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Related question: [Which kanji has the greatest number of
strokes?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/5277/which-kanji-has-
the-greatest-number-of-strokes)
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Is the kanji/kokuji "taito" (たいと) with 84 strokes legitimate and ever used?
Here is a page showing a detailed study on citation history of the kanji:  
<http://atonal.fc2web.com/mr/something/gather/otodo_taito/otodo_taito.html>

According to it, there is a book from 1981 called 姓氏の語源 'Etymology of
Surnames', and it has a short story about the kanji, which goes; One day a
young guy showed up at a brokerage office, bought a large amount of stock in
cash, and showed the staff a namecard which has the kanji written on it.

But this is basically a hearsay of hearsay of hearsay...stuff, and as far as
the above page tells us, this seems to be the only clue to the possible (if
possible) existence of the person name, which, no one knows if it was
registered in koseki, or at least it has been used within a small community,
or it was just a personal invention for a pseudonym.

So that's it. I think the kanji is infinitely unreal.

EDIT: By the way, this 'equivalent character in Traditional Chinese' that the
en.wikipedia cites seems to be just three 龍, with no 雲 accompanying. So,
actually, it is not 'equivalent' to our kanji in question.
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This is not a definitive answer to your question, but the _koseki_ register
(accessible [here](http://kosekimoji.moj.go.jp/kosekimojidb/mjko/PeopleTop))
does contain the separate pieces as _kanji_ appearing in officially registered
names:

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

It is thus definitely possible that there was (or is) someone with the name
[䨺龘]【たいとう】. However, the _koseki_ does not have an entry for the ligature of
the two characters.

We cannot hope to disprove the existence of _taitō_ / _taito_ as a single
character. However, there is no evidence in the _koseki_ register that this
character existed (in a name) as a single "ligature" of 䨺 and 龘. On the other
hand there is evidence that the individual parts exist(ed) as part of a name.
Maybe (by some version of Occam's razor for _kanji_ ) we should conclude that
_taitō_ / _taito_ does not exist as a single character, but only as two
characters, 䨺 _tai_ and 龘 _tō_.

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By the way, the _kanji_ with the largest number of strokes registered in the
_koseki_ is a _kanji_ consisting of four copies of 龍, giving 64 strokes, which
is read テツ・テチ

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

For more characters with large stroke counts see [my
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/43379/1628) on [Which kanji has
the greatest number of
strokes?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/5277/1628)
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