Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 🎄 🇯🇵

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Dec 22

Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order
Strokes:22

籠

Kun: かご、 こ.める、 こも.る、 こ.む
On: ロウ、 ル

Words of the day: 竹たけ籠かご (bamboo basket), 灯とう籠ろう (garden lantern, hanging lantern), 蒸せい籠ろ (bamboo steamer), 片かた旅籠はたご (one-night stay (with just breakfast or dinner)), 籠ろう球きゅう (basketball)

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籠 means things like basket, devote oneself, seclude oneself, cage, coop, implied. It’s a Jōyō kanji taught in junior high. It’s not on Wanikani.

Here’s the stroke order:

And variations: