Ordering phenomenon · pen-lift jumps and stroke order
Kanji Morphology

Stroke order · ordered realization

筆順 · the pen between strokes

Pen-lift jumps and order

How far the pen travels in the air from the end of one stroke to the start of the next, and how that total compares with the smallest total the same strokes can make.

These are frequencies in one KanjiVG snapshot. The figures report the totals, the jump lengths, and how the official total compares with the minimum total.

On this page

How a jump is read

Pen-lift jump
Total
Leave-and-return
Plain
Minimum total

Total pen-air travel

The largest totals

Character Strokes Total Longest jump After stroke That jump

The smallest totals

Character Strokes Total Longest jump After stroke That jump

The longest jumps

Character Strokes From To Length Kind

Jump length by stroke index

Index Characters Mean Median

Jump length by place in the character

Place Jumps Mean Median

Early, middle, and late

Third Jumps Mean Median

The official total and the minimum

Character Strokes Official total Minimum total Ratio

Six characters

Character From To Length Kind

Click a plate to replay. With reduced motion the finished character stays still. A dotted line runs from the end of a stroke to the start of the next. The line appears when that next stroke starts.

  • Pen-lift jump

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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.