Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 🎄 🇯🇵

Japanese Language
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Dec 1

Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order
Strokes:1

乙

Kun: おと-、 きのと
On: オツ、 イツ

Words of the day: 乙おつな味あじ (strange taste; spicy taste), 乙いつ夜や (second division of the night (approx. 9pm to 11pm)

This is the most involved one-stroke kanji I could find (surely just drawing a line for 一 would be a little boring, right?). It’s WK level 57, and means things like the latter, duplicate, strange, witty. It’s also a radical.

Here’s a video of Japanese Calligrapher Takumi writing it (2.26 mark):

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