Variant forms beside the element

These are counts in one KanjiVG snapshot. A count is not a rule. The variant mark is the attribute on the group. The original, when the group carries one, is the kvg:original string. The page makes no claim about why the mark is there, and no claim about meaning.

Cinnabar marks the variant group’s strokes on the host, once they have been drawn. On the standalone plate, cinnabar marks the kept strokes when the group’s letter-stripped sequence is a subsequence of the element’s own file. The tint is data-stroke-highlight. A plate without it is not recolored. Click a plate to replay. With reduced motion the finished character stays still, and the color stays. The draw timings are unchanged. The plate stays cream in either theme.

The kept strokes, once they have been drawn

How a variant group is read

Variant group
Element
Original
Own file
Reference
Stroke count kept: The group has as many strokes as the element’s own file.
Shorter: Fewer strokes than the element’s own file.
Longer: More strokes than the element’s own file.
Equal: The letter-stripped type sequences are the same tuple.
Subsequence: The group’s letter-stripped sequence is a subsequence of the reference, and the two tuples differ.
Not a subsequence: The letter-stripped sequence is not a subsequence of the reference. The page names no kept set for that group.
Order kept
First: One unbroken run, starting at stroke 1, with some other stroke still to come.
Last: One unbroken run, ending on stroke N, with some other stroke already written.
Split
In the middle: One unbroken run that is neither the start nor the end.
The whole character: The variant group contains every stroke. It is not counted as first or as last.
Host: A jōyō character whose file contains the group. One host can contain more than one group.
Depth: Depth 0 is the character’s own group, or a group whose parent is that group. Depth k means k groups lie between the variant group and the character group.
Partial

Which groups carry the mark

Set	Count

Stroke count and type sequence

Stroke count	Equal	Subsequence	Not a subsequence	Total

Where the group sits

Set	First	Last	Split	In the middle	The whole character	Total

Depth in the group tree

Depth	Groups

Hosts

Groups in the host	Hosts

Partial and original

kvg:partial	With original	No original	Total

By element

On each row, kept, shorter, and longer add to the occurrences when the element has a file, and they are zero when it does not. Equal, subsequence, and not a subsequence add the same way. Order kept is equal plus subsequence. First, last, split, in the middle, and the whole character add to the occurrences. The total row sums those columns. The hosts column counts a host once for each element it contains. The strokes are not a sum.

Element	Own file	Strokes	Hosts	Occurrences	With original	Partial	Kept	Shorter	Longer	Equal	Subsequence	Not a subsequence	Order kept	First	Last	Split	In the middle	The whole character

Full list of elements

Every element

The rows are every element that a variant group names, in the same columns as the ten above. The occurrences add to the groups that name an element. The two groups that name no element are not in this table.

Element	Own file	Strokes	Hosts	Occurrences	With original	Partial	Kept	Shorter	Longer	Equal	Subsequence	Not a subsequence	Order kept	First	Last	Split	In the middle	The whole character

No standalone file

Element	Originals	Hosts	Occurrences	First	Last	Split	In the middle	The whole character

Groups that name no element

Host	Original	Group strokes	Host strokes	Place	Position

Plates

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