These are frequencies in one KanjiVG snapshot. A rank is a place in that file. It does not say that a long stroke must come late, or last.

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How rank and length are read

Rank
Rank tenth
Third
Consecutive ratio
Longest is last

Length by rank tenth

Up to Strokes Mean Median Above the mean Share

Early, middle, and late

Third Strokes Mean Median Above the mean Share

The longest stroke, and the last stroke

Where Characters Share

Which third holds the longest stroke

Third Characters Share

The next stroke’s length

Comparison Pairs Share

Five characters

Click a plate to replay. With reduced motion the finished character stays still. A bar stands to the right of the character, one bar for each stroke, in order from left to right. The bar grows as that stroke is drawn. Its full height is that stroke’s length divided by the longest stroke on the same plate, so the bars show the shape inside the character. A finished bar is cinnabar. The bar being drawn is indigo.

  • A stroke already drawn
  • The stroke being drawn

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Each stroke

Character Stroke Length Up to Third Ratio to the next

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.