Re:KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order...
by bkbullock on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @04:09AM
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There isn't actually any colour coding in the SVG files. Various viewers add that on, but the SVG files themselves are black and white.
The stroke order is the accepted one for the most part, but it would be going to far to say that it is definitely correct.
https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3A...
There are various disputed stroke orders and the radicals are also sometimes disputed. KanjiVG also contains a large number of variant stroke orders which are identified using suffixes.
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 purchased an iOS Japanese dictionary app called "Nihongo" (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nihongo-japanese-dictionary/id...) for my daughter because she wanted to study Japanese. I was just expecting a basic course, but it is probably the best vocabulary/kanji studying app I've ever used. It's a little pricey, but well worth it if you're trying to build a strong Japanese vocabulary or learning to read kanji. I have no affiliation with the people who make the app. I'm just an impressed buyer.