Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 🎄 🇯🇵

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Dec 8

Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order
Strokes:8

長

Kun: なが.い、 おさ
On: チョウ

Words of the day: 長なが居い ( long visit, overstaying), 八や百お長ちょう (match fixing; put-up job; fixed game), 気き長なが (patient; unhurried; leisurely), 霊れい長ちょう類るい (primates)

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長 means long, senior, superior, and it’s a Jōyō kanji taught in grade 2, JLPT level N5, WK level 6.

Here’s a video of Japanese Calligrapher Takumi teaching us how to write it (2:07 mark):

【美文字】「長谷川」の書き方のコツ伝授します How to write "HASEGAWA"（kanji）

Here’s the stroke order:

And variations: (that last one again!)