Counts and means only. No conclusions are drawn from small groups. These are counts in one KanjiVG snapshot. A grade is not a rule of stroke order, and it does not say what a character means. The groups differ in size and in mean stroke count.

Click a plate to replay. With reduced motion the finished character stays still. These plates set no extra attribute. The plate stays cream in either theme. The draw timings are unchanged.

On this page

How a grade is read

School grade
The five measures
Mean stroke count
Groups of different size

Half-ink rank

Grade Characters Mean stroke count Mean

First-touch rank

Grade Characters Mean stroke count First touch Never One stroke Mean

Centroid settle rank

Grade Characters Mean stroke count Mean

Mean turn

Grade Characters Mean stroke count Pairs Mean

Mean pen-lift jump

Grade Characters Mean stroke count Pairs Mean

Seven 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. Grades: Order by school grade. The five measures: Stroke count and order measures.