I like the stroke orders for the romaji.
KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
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#42If anyone is looking for animated stroke orders for Chinese characters, Hanzi5 is by far the best resource [1]. I built a small app to make them searchable too [2]. 1. http://www.hanzi5.com/ 2. https://dragonmandarin.com
The above web site offers animated stroke orders, see the "animate" button on
https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/viewer.html
Credit for the project is at the bottom of the page.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because when you handwriting, the stroke order is very important.
Very important due to, tradition?
Writing by hand leads to optimizations, such as not lifting the pen a lot. This means that the movement between strokes also gets drawn. A 10 stroke character might end up being one single continuous path (effectively 10 strokes + 9 connections). Depending on stroke order, the results can be wildly different. So consistency makes sense for the result to be intelligible.
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#44IMHO it’s high time China and Japan went the enlightened Hangul way Korea took half a millennia ago. There’s no reason to keep to absurdity going any longer; even they don’t know how to type their own words and use pinyin as input. The Vietnamese way would also be easy with their explicit tones written on each vowel, however they lost the advantages that blocky characters offer.
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#45KanjiVG is pretty cool. The color coding for radicals and stroke orders is nice. Also, parsing and using the SVGs is fairly straight forward. Having owned a couple of books that had the stroke orders wrong while I was learning Japanese, I always check for mistakes in the stroke orders of kanji like 右 (right) and 左 (left) to make sure they're correct. KanjiVG gets it right. On a tangentially related note, I recently p…
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's generated from KanjiVG though: https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/projects.html
Oh interesting. I skimmed that page to make sure it wasn't already referenced and ironically didn't recognize that the kanji were the same as the link I posted. More practice needed I guess.
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#47KanjiVG is awesome. I used it for a free kanji app I made for iOS and Android. Figuring out how to write an SVG parser + renderer wasn't as tricky as I thought when I set out to do it. https://www.bjmalicoat.com/projects/kanjibook
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#48See also the linked projects (https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/projects.html), which seem like a valuable resource.
I only looked at https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/home/ and already thought this site is just insane with what it offers for free.
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#49If anyone is looking for animated stroke orders for Chinese characters, Hanzi5 is by far the best resource [1]. I built a small app to make them searchable too [2]. 1. http://www.hanzi5.com/ 2. https://dragonmandarin.com
The above web site offers animated stroke orders, see the "animate" button on https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/viewer.html Credit for the project is at the bottom of the page.
The originally posted website offers animated stroke order for japanese kanji, which is not necessarily the same as for chinese characters.
For example, enter 田 into both the original website (https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/viewer.html?kanji=%E7%94%B0) and hanzi5 (http://www.hanzi5.com/bishun/7530.html), and you'll see that the stroke order differs.
There are also several chinese characters which are not present in that japanese viewer, for example 厅
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#50Why does stroke order matter? Is it to handle animating them and if each stroke isn’t the same colour? Sorry but I don’t know much about these kinds of characters.
One thing not mentioned in other comments is that stroke order also helps with software that wants to do character recognition.
If, for example, you are taking handwritten notes on an ipad, and want software to convert the notes into text... well, knowing the order of strokes and having an agreed upon order helps considerably over just trying to match shapes.
Digital dictionaries also usually have a "handwritten input" mode to look up a character, and that mode will also recognize characters much more accurately when input with correct stroke order.