These are counts in one KanjiVG snapshot. A nearest stroke is not a rule of stroke order.

Click a plate to replay. As each new stroke is drawn, a thin line joins one of its samples to a sample of the nearest earlier stroke. The line just drawn is indigo. A line already drawn stays cinnabar. A dot sits on the earlier stroke. With reduced motion the finished character stays still, and every line stays. A plate without the attribute draws no line and does not change its viewBox. The draw timings are unchanged.

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How the distance is read

The distance
The nearest earlier stroke
The rank tenth
Stroke 2

The stroke just drawn, and an older stroke

The ten rank tenths

k/n Pairs 1 back 2 back 3 back 4 or more

How many strokes back

Six characters, stroke by stroke

Character k n k/n Nearest Strokes back Distance To the stroke just drawn

Six 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.