Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 🎄 🇯🇵

Dec 7

Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order
Strokes:7

Kun: たまご
On: ラン

Words of the day: らんけい (oval shape; egg shape), るいらん (dangerous situation; pile of eggs), さったまご (aspiring writer)


I was between several kanji today, but I find 卵 a very pleasing shape, so I went with that. It means egg, and it’s a Jōyō kanji taught in grade 6, JLPT level N2, WK level 32.

Here’s a video of Japanese Calligrapher Takumi writing it (0:09 mark):

Here’s the stroke order:

And variations:

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