Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 🎄 🇯🇵

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Dec12

Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order
Strokes:12

葉

Kun: は
On: ヨウ

Words of the day: 紅こう葉よう (autumn colours, leaves changing colour), 針しん葉よう樹じゅ (conifer, needle-leaved tree), 根ねも葉はもない (unfounded (e.g. rumour); groundless; baseless; completely untrue)

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葉 means things like leaf, needle, blade, counter for flat things, fragment. It’s a Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3. It’s JLPT level N3 and WK level 10.

Here’s a video of Japanese Calligrapher Takumi writing it along with a brush pen (at the 1:30 mark):

【お名前美文字】マリウス葉（Sexy Zone）編

And an instructional video on how to write it beautifully:

画数の多い「葉」をカッコ良く引き締める美文字の技！　～書写検定1級への挑戦～　ペン字のオンライン通信講座　　美文字塾　谷口栄豊

Here’s the stroke order:

And variations: