Variants — Kanji Morphology

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王 · the vertical is s2 in the main file and s4 in VtLst.

Gold strokes sit at a different index in the other file. The cinnabar stroke is the first index where the two sequences disagree. A cinnabar border marks the variant file. Click a plate to replay. With reduced motion the finished character stays still, and the colors stay.

Index differs
First disagreement

The same character, played twice

Each pair is the main file and a file KanjiVG shipped beside it. Stroke classes below are the first character of kvg:type, so ㇑a is written ㇑. The numbers are that file’s own -sN order.

Vertical last

VtLst moves a vertical to the end of its run. 王 is above. 生 and 国 do the same thing one step later in the character.

生 · main. s1 ㇒, s2 ㇐, s3 ㇑, s4 ㇐, s5 ㇐.

生 · VtLst. s1 ㇒, s2 ㇐, s3 ㇐, s4 ㇐, s5 ㇑. First difference at s3. Three strokes change index.

国 · main. The 王 inside is s3 ㇐, s4 ㇑, s5 ㇐, s6 ㇐.

国 · VtLst. That vertical moves from s4 to s6. First difference at s4. Three strokes change index.

Horizontal first

HzFst puts a horizontal ahead of the vertical that led in the main file. On 止 and 長 that is a swap of the first two strokes.

止 · main. s1 ㇑, s2 ㇐, s3 ㇑, s4 ㇐.

止 · HzFst. s1 ㇐, s2 ㇑, s3 ㇑, s4 ㇐. First difference at s1. Two strokes change index.

長 · main. s1 ㇑, then four ㇐, then ㇙㇒㇏.

長 · HzFst. s1 ㇐, s2 ㇑, and from s3 the classes match. First difference at s1. Two strokes change index.

A dot, and a numbered vertical

Ten3 is KanjiVG’s name for a 必 whose dot is not first. Vt6 is a vertical written as the sixth stroke. TenLst is the 卵 file: the variant ends on ㇔, and the main file ends on ㇑.

必 · main. s1 ㇔, s2 ㇒, s3 ㇃, s4 ㇔, s5 ㇔.

必 · Ten3. s1 ㇒, s2 ㇃, s3 ㇔, s4 ㇔, s5 ㇔. The dot moves from s1 to s3. Three strokes change index.

馬 · main. Inner vertical at s3, hook at s6, then four dots.

馬 · Vt6. The inner vertical is s6. First difference at s3. Four strokes change index.

卵 · main. Ends s6 ㇔, s7 ㇑.

卵 · TenLst. Ends s6 ㇑, s7 ㇔. First difference at s3. Four strokes change index.

癶, two ways

Dg3 and DgLst are KanjiVG’s names for stroke-order variants of 癶. 発 has both. The right half of 癶 is three strokes. The main file writes ㇒, ㇏, ㇒. Dg3 writes ㇏, ㇒, ㇒. DgLst writes ㇒, ㇒, ㇏. Strokes s1–s2 and s6–s9 keep the same classes in all three files.

発 · main. s3 ㇒, s4 ㇏, s5 ㇒.

発 · Dg3. s3 ㇏, s4 ㇒, s5 ㇒. First difference at s3. Two strokes change index.

発 · DgLst. s3 ㇒, s4 ㇒, s5 ㇏. First difference at s4. Two strokes change index.

Vertical first, a vertical moved forward, horizontal last

VtFst on 至 swaps s4 and s5, so the vertical precedes the horizontal that had preceded it. MdFst is not glossed on KanjiVG’s variant page. In 非 the right-hand vertical moves from s5 to s2. HzLst is glossed “horizontal last”. In 表 the vertical moves from s2 to s4, and the two horizontals that followed it are written before it.

至 · main. s4 ㇐, s5 ㇑, s6 ㇐.

至 · VtFst. s4 ㇑, s5 ㇐, s6 ㇐. First difference at s4. Two strokes change index.

非 · main. s1 ㇓, s2 ㇐, s3 ㇐, s4 ㇀, s5 ㇑, then three ㇐.

非 · MdFst. s2 is the vertical. First difference at s2. Four strokes change index.

表 · main. s1 ㇐, s2 ㇑, s3 ㇐, s4 ㇐.

表 · HzLst. s1 ㇐, s2 ㇐, s3 ㇐, s4 ㇑. First difference at s2. Three strokes change index.

劇, left to right and right to left

右 and 左 are different characters, and neither has an extra file here. They are on Same parts, different order. 劇 does have the left-to-right pair, on the two strokes KanjiVG numbers s3 and s4. The main file and HzFstLeRi write s3 ㇒, s4 ㇖. HzFstRiLe and VtFstRiLe write s3 ㇖, s4 ㇒. HzFst also swaps the first two strokes; VtFst leaves them vertical then horizontal.

劇 · main. s1 ㇑, s2 ㇐, s3 ㇒, s4 ㇖.

劇 · HzFstLeRi. s1 ㇐, s2 ㇑, s3 ㇒, s4 ㇖. Two strokes change index.

劇 · HzFstRiLe. s1 ㇐, s2 ㇑, s3 ㇖, s4 ㇒. Four strokes change index.

劇 · VtFstRiLe. s1 ㇑, s2 ㇐, s3 ㇖, s4 ㇒. First difference at s3. Two strokes change index.

田 and 由

田 has only a Kaisho file. The five stroke classes stay in the same order. 由 has that file and KaishoVtLst, which moves the vertical from s3 to s5. The box that looks like 田 on Same parts, different order is a comparison across characters. The second order of one character, here, is 由.

田 · main. s1 ㇑, s2 ㇕, s3 ㇑, s4 ㇐, s5 ㇐.

田 · Kaisho. The same five classes, in the same order. No stroke changes index.

由 · main. s1 ㇑, s2 ㇕, s3 ㇑, s4 ㇐, s5 ㇐.

由 · KaishoVtLst. s3 ㇐, s4 ㇐, s5 ㇑. First difference at s3. Three strokes change index.

耳

耳 has Kaisho, which keeps every index, and KaishoVt3, which moves the right-hand vertical from s6 to s3. Vt3 is not on KanjiVG’s variant list. Vt4 and Vt6 are glossed there as a vertical at that index, and in this file the vertical is the third stroke.

耳 · main. s1 ㇐, s2 ㇑, s3 ㇐, s4 ㇐, s5 ㇀, s6 ㇑.

耳 · Kaisho. The same six classes, in the same order.

耳 · KaishoVt3. s3 is the right-hand vertical. First difference at s3. Four strokes change index.

The order stays

These Kaisho files keep every stroke at its index. The paths are still redrawn: a match of start points is not a match of curves. KanjiVG’s own note on the suffix says the kaisho file usually means a shape such as 月 or 日 whose middle stroke does not reach the right side. 書 has no order suffix, only this one. 飛 and 感 have no extra file at all.

日 · main. s1 ㇑, s2 ㇕, s3 ㇐, s4 ㇐.

日 · Kaisho. The same four classes, in the same order.

月 · main. s1 ㇓, s2 ㇆, s3 ㇐, s4 ㇐.

月 · Kaisho. The same four classes, in the same order.

書 · main. Ten strokes, vertical at s6.

書 · Kaisho. The same ten classes, in the same order.

Counts by suffix

What the token means

The glosses follow KanjiVG’s variant page where that page describes the suffix. Where it does not, the sentence is what these jōyō files do. A file can carry more than one token: KaishoVtLst is counted under both. LeFst, MdLst, NoDot, and a bare Hz, Vt, Le, or Ri are on that page and on no jōyō character in this snapshot.

Token	Files	Order differs	What it is

Every full suffix

Suffix	Files	Tokens

Every extra file

One row per extra file of a jōyō character. “First” is the first stroke index where the variant is not the same stroke as the main file. “Moved” is how many matched strokes sit at a different index. A blank first column means every matched stroke kept its index.

Character or suffix Token Order differs

				Strokes	Containment list

What this shows

Stroke diagrams: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel et al., CC BY-SA 3.0, from commit 70a0b7ae0c18ceb5cb358274b029cce0234a43bc of github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg, including alternate-order files such as 0738b-VtLst.svg. Suffix names: KanjiVG, “Variants”. Jōyō index: the list used on the Gallery. The same 王, 止, 必, 馬, and 発 are also played on Rules and Same parts, different order.

Alternate orders