Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 🎄 🇯🇵

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Dec10

Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order
Strokes:10

鬼

Kun: おに、 おに-
On: キ

Words of the day: 吸きゅう血けつ鬼き (vampire, bloodsucker), 疑ぎ心しん暗あん鬼き (everything looks suspicious, jumping at shadows),鬼おにごっこ (the children’s game ‘tag’), 鬼おにが笑わらう (to be laughable, to be unrealistic)

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鬼 means demon. It’s a Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high. It’s JLPT level N1 and WK level 23.

Here’s a video of Japanese Calligrapher Takumi writing it with a brush pen (first kanji in the video):

【筆ペン書道】「鬼舞辻無惨」を書いてみた【鬼滅の刃】

Here’s the stroke order:

And variations: