筆順 · the same strokes, another sequence
Japan vs China: where the official orders differ
Jōyō characters whose glyph matches in both standards, and whose Japanese school order and mainland order are not the same sequence.
発 has no entry in the Chinese file. 发 is a different character, and the two are not compared.
Japanese standard · KanjiVG
Mainland standard · Make Me a Hanzi
Gold strokes sit at a different index in the other standard. The cinnabar stroke is the first index where the two sequences disagree. An indigo border marks the mainland file. Both are the official order of that standard. Click a plate to replay. With reduced motion the finished character stays still, and the colors stay.
- Index differs
- First disagreement
- Mainland file
On this page
The same character, two standards
Each pair is the Japanese file and the mainland file. Stroke classes are KanjiVG’s class for that stroke, carried over to the mainland stroke it matches. The numbers are each file’s own order.
右 and 左
右 opens with a left-falling stroke in the Japanese file and with a horizontal in the mainland file. 左 opens with the horizontal in both, so the two standards agree. 皮 swaps the same kind of opener, a left-falling stroke and a horizontal-starting stroke. 感 does it at the first two strokes and then keeps the rest of the sequence.
Horizontal and vertical
Where a horizontal and a vertical cross, the files often disagree about which is written first. 王 and 玉 put the vertical in a different place in the sequence. On 玉 the dot stays last in both. 生 and 長 swap a vertical and a horizontal. 馬 opens on the vertical in the Japanese file and on the horizontal in the mainland file.
田, and the frame around it
In 田 and 由 the inner vertical and a horizontal trade places. The frame’s first two strokes stay put. 書 and 国 do the same exchange inside the character: the outline is already started, and the disagreement is a bar and a stem.
A dot, and a stroke that waits
必 disagrees from the first stroke. Both of those strokes are dots, and they are not the same dot. On 母 the long horizontal and the last dot trade places. On 舟 the horizontal and the vertical near the end trade places. On 飛 the long vertical sits at a different index.
Counts by kind
Every character that differs
One row per jōyō character whose glyph matches and whose order does not. “First” is the first index where the two files are not writing the same stroke. “Moved” is how many strokes sit at a different index.
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What this shows
70a0b7ae0c18ceb5cb358274b029cce0234a43bc of github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg. Plate files are in site/assets/kanjivg/. Mainland stroke diagrams: medians from Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, commit bddc96d41bef78427ed0e034e9f7e31d71fd1b92, derived from Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai under the Arphic Public License. The centerline SVGs are in site/assets/makemeahanzi/. That project records the mainland order of 现代汉语通用字笔顺规范. Jōyō index: the list used on the Gallery.