Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 🎄 🇯🇵

[omk3]

Dec 6

Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order
Strokes:6

気

Kun: き
On: キ、 ケ

Words of the day: 浮うわ気き (extramarital sex; affair; fooling around), 何なに気げない (casual; unconcerned; nonchalant). 血ちの気け (blood (in one’s face, cheeks, etc.), colour, hotheadedness, impulsive temperament)

---

While there are many great 6-stroke kanji, I could not not do 気. It’s ubiquitous, uniquely Japanese (or at least does not have a direct equivalent in Western languages as far as I know), and can mean more or less anything (well, it means things like spirit, mind, air, atmosphere, mood, but it changes so much depending on what it’s attached to). Of course it’s taught in the first grade and it’s JLPT level N5, and WK level 4. I find its shape very pleasant too.

Japanese Calligrapher Takumi teaches us how to write it here:

【美文字】小学一年漢字「気（き）」の書き方How to write ki（mood,spirit）

Here’s the stroke order:

And variations (for once I find even the last one recognizable):