The Chinese character "biang" has more than 50 strokes and is believed to be one of the most complicated. Now it has become a tool to deter tardiness at a college in Chengdu, Sichuan province. Students who are late for classes will have to write the character 1,000 times as punishment. One student so punished, surnamed Cheng, said that she could not bear to write it anymore when she reached the 200th time because of its extremely complicated structure.