These are frequencies in one KanjiVG snapshot. A stroke that first meets earlier ink is not a rule that it must.

Click a plate to replay. With reduced motion the finished character stays still, and the first touching stroke stays indigo without flashing. Otherwise that stroke flashes and then stays indigo. A plate without the first-touch attribute does not flash, and the draw timings are unchanged.

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How a first touch is read

Touching sample
First touch
Rank tenth
Stroke type
Never touches
One stroke

Three classes

Class Characters Share

Which stroke

Stroke Characters Share

Rank of that stroke

Up to Characters Share

Type of that stroke

Type Characters Share

Characters that never touch

    One stroke

    Six characters

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    Each stroke on the plates

    Character Stroke Touching Samples Type First touch

    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.