Ordering phenomenon · ink density
Kanji Morphology

Stroke order · ordered realization

筆順 · ink over the order

Ink density over the order

After each stroke, the ink down so far as a share of the finished ink, and as a share of the finished box.

These are counts in one KanjiVG snapshot. An ink share is not a rule of stroke order.

Click a plate to replay. The bar on the right fills with the share of the final ink as the strokes are drawn. The gold line across the bar is half. With reduced motion the finished character stays still, and the bar stays full. A plate without the ink attribute draws no bar, and the draw timings are unchanged.

On this page

How the ink is counted

Ink cell
Final ink
Final box
Ink share
Box share
Half-ink stroke
Rank tenth

When half the ink is down

k/n Characters

Where that stroke sits

Place Characters

Share by rank tenth

k/n Characters Mean ink share Mean box share

Front-loaded and back-loaded

Class Characters

Most front-loaded

Character k n k/n Ink at k Final ink Ink share Final box Box share

Most back-loaded

Character k n k/n Ink at k Final ink Ink share Final box Box share

The stroke width

Width 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 Total Same tenth Different tenth

Six characters

Character k n k/n Ink at k Final ink Ink share Box Final box Box share

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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.