These are counts in one KanjiVG snapshot. A component count is not a rule of stroke order, and it does not say what a character means.

Click a plate to replay. Each top-level slot keeps one color, in the order the pen first reaches it, the same coloring as the valence atlas. A component split by kvg:part keeps its color. With reduced motion the finished character stays still, and the colors stay. A plate without the attribute is not recolored. The draw timings are unchanged.

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How the count is read

A top-level slot
The four groups
A rank

The four groups

Group Characters Strokes

Pen-lift jumps

Group Characters Strokes Jumps Mean Median

Turning between strokes

Group Characters Strokes Pairs Mean Median At most 30° Between At least 150°

First touch

Group Characters Strokes First touch Never One stroke Mean rank Median rank

Half the ink

Group Characters Strokes Mean rank Median rank One stroke First stroke A middle stroke Last stroke

Where the centroid settles

Group Characters Strokes Mean rank Median rank Early Middle Late One stroke

Four plates

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What this shows

Stroke diagrams: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel et al., CC BY-SA 3.0, from commit 70a0b7ae0c18ceb5cb358274b029cce0234a43bc of github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg. The plate files are unmodified copies in site/assets/kanjivg/. Jōyō index: the list used on the Gallery.