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uncommon character
obscure character
As far as possible colloquialism does not want awkward-sounding difficult, avoid rare word.
In the old days, one could get away with filling in a rarely used character by hand.

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Open the tool →生僻字 (shēng pì zì) means “rare character, uncommon character, obscure character”.
生僻字 is pronounced shēng pì zì in Mandarin Chinese.
“rare character” is 生僻字 (shēng pì zì) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 生僻字, each with pinyin and an English translation.