# Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 🎄 🇯🇵

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**Category:** Japanese Language\
**Created:** [November 11, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/japanese-advent-calendar-2022/59244 "2022-11-11T14:54:19Z")\
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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):

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/a/0/2/a02909d4e4436676c6cb3f2354a7f8c7815be144.jpeg "【美文字】「長谷川」の書き方のコツ伝授します How to write "HASEGAWA"（kanji）") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GcfSBcm14U&t=127)

Here’s the stroke order:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/b/8/3/b835805bb13f5f69c7e8a5c3506a5ea9a63a58cc.png)

And variations: (that last one again!)

 ![長」の書き方 - 漢字の正しい書き順(筆順)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/d/f/9/df958fc954995fccc3f744e190ea213ddaca73de.gif)

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