Stroke order — Kanji Morphology

Stroke order is the order

Nested KanjiVG groups hold the formatives. The pen realizes them as a sequence that does not commute. Valence is how many component slots that frame opens — not how many strokes get drawn.

国 · enclosure. Deep 2, surface 8. The frame leaves and returns.

明 · left–right. Deep 2, surface 8. Same arity as 休, different length.

囲 · enclosure. Deep 2, surface 7. The outline and the interior both split.

休 · left–right. Deep 2, surface 6. original=人 is not a third slot.

語 · semantic + phonetic. Deep 2, surface 14.

木 · one formative, four strokes. Order inside a part is not valence 4.

Diagrams draw themselves in writing order. Click a glyph to replay.

KanjiVG · CC BY-SA 3.0 · REAL / SPECULATIVE / REJECTED · Kanji ≠ syntax

A first page of the jōyō list, most frequent first. Each cell is a KanjiVG diagram animated in stroke order. The full set is the gallery — paged, not vendored.

Rejected. Stroke order is not Merge. KanjiVG trees are not X-bar and not phrase structure. Strokes are not θ-roles. No Bridge, and no kanji↔doping joint field. Graphs are not syntactic heads.

Speculative, and labeled as such. A two-slot frame can be likened to a two-argument operator. That likening is analogy. It does not make the graph a head.

Archive. Classifier packaging and VN-suru Argument Transfer stay on the archive desk. They do not lead this site. Kanji ≠ syntax.

Stroke diagrams: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel et al., CC BY-SA 3.0. Twelve worked files are stored in this site. The gallery loads the rest from the KanjiVG repository at view time. Jōyō index fields (grade, frequency, stroke count) come from the kanji-data jōyō list.