Dec17
Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order
Strokes:17
鍵
Kun: かぎ
On: ケン
Words of the day: 鍵盤 (keyboard (of a piano, typewriter, etc.)), 合鍵 (master key, passkey, duplicate key), 鍵垢 (private account (on social media, esp. Twitter); account that can only be viewed by approved followers)
Today’s kanji means, very simply, key. It’s a Jōyō kanji taught in junior high. Apparently it’s not in JLPT, but I run across it in novels all the time. In WK it’s level 46.
Here’s the stroke order:
And variations:
