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  • PC: Alt [+ Shift] + d + s (Shift for non-Chrome browser)
  • macOS: Ctrl + Option + d + s
  • Chrome OS: Alt + d + s

...followed by a or z for ascending or descending sort, respectively.

Optionally: employ a "keyboard shortcut mapper" utility application (like BetterTouchTool on macOS) to map the above sequence(s) to even-shorter, customized keyboard/keystoke combinations.

Background

Per the Keyboard shortcuts for Google Sheets:

The above method uses the per-OS (and sometimes per-web-browser) "Open a menu" keyboard shorcut to open/run the Data->Sort_sheet->Sort_sheet_by_column ... menu command.

This applies to PC/macOS/ChromeOS ("Computer") platforms and not to mobile/Android/iOS/iPadOS, which appear to have no menu-command control.