Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 🎄 🇯🇵

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Dec 4

Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order
Strokes:4

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Kun: かた-、 かた
On: ヘン

Words of the day: 雪せっ片ぺん<.ruby> (snowflake (cluster of ice crystals), 片 かた思おもい (unrequited love; one-sided love)

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The kanji means things like one-sided, leaf, sheet, right-side, and it’s also a radical. It’s a Jōyō kanji taught in grade 6, JLPT level N2 and WK level 39. I like it’s slightly lopsided angular shape.

Here’s the stroke order:

And variations: (that last one again!)