Category:CJK stroke order

Hello, and Welcome to the CJK stroke order project, a small but motivated team making several types of images that show the stroke order of Chinese characters. Our aim is to make available a complete set of high quality and free illustrations that clearly show the right way to write Hanzi, Kanji, Hantu, and Hanja. We started this project because nobody has done it before in such a quality. Moreover, it seem that we are the only one working on all of the 3 schools of stroke order; Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese.

You are free to use the graphics we've made and welcomed to join us and contribute to our progress. It's easy, you just have to follow the simple steps stated in our graphic protocols. And please, feel free to leave us an encouraging message:].

The work is divided in three subcategories: black and white pictures (~1.000), pictures in gradation of red (~100), and animated GIFs (~250)

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Of course, you can use all materials on this site for your own website. All materials are published under the GNU-Creative Commons 3.0 License ^. You only have to state:

1. Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CJK_stroke_order
2. License: Images/animations under CC + GFDL (using the license template {{SOlicense}})
3. Authors: Mostly M4RC0 for -bw.png; Muke and Yug for -red.png; Wikic and Micheletb for -order.gif.

1. we currently need BW help on the 214 radicals progression (~150 pics), and on the Asian alphabets (한글, easy pics).
2. -red.png sleeping (2 users).
3. Change of format : *-order.gif are now available in 300x300.

Joining the team is easy: just join our work! You can first look around this page: there are many valuable pieces of information on our organization. In this page, you can find our protocols, our file naming system (by way-by kind of image). The authentic stroke orders are shown in the list of 214 radicals, which covers each radical in the 3 ways. To contribute to the graphic work, you will need some graphic skills in Bitmap or Animation.
Then, you will have everything in hand to contribute to this Stroke Order Project, offering free data for CEDICT, HanDeDict, JMDICT, and others free dictionaries linked to CJK characters.

Prompted by the common interest of several wikipedians in CJK stroke order, the Stroke order project now contains three sub-projects.
The Black&White (*-bw.png) and the Red gradation (*-red.png) sub-projects are two printable versions usable for making books or printed textbooks. The Order sub-project (*-order.gif) is based on stronger calligraphic interest, and though painstaking to create, the results are probably more beautiful.

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This project specifically considers 3 ways of writing—Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese—separately. We take the Simplified Chinese characters as the basic characters, which are named 中-red.png. Files of characters specific to Japan are named with "j" as 中-jred.png, while those specific to Traditional Chinese are named with "t" as 中-tred.png.

This Stroke order project also deeply links to calligraphic issue. The particular Free fonts used are chosen for their calligraphic Kǎishū [楷書] appearance. The 3 ways of writing provided—modern Chinese, Japanese, and traditional Chinese—correspond to the 3 main calligraphic schools. When a calligrapher produces a work, the order of stroke directly [influences] the graphical result, especially in cursive styles. The knowledge of the good stroke orders will allow you to write a fully japanese calligraphy, or a fully traditional calligraphy, as ancient masters wrote the same words. The more calligraphic sub-project is the *-order.gif of Wikic.

For convenience and pedagogic purposes, we first work on to complete the 214 Kangxi radicals in modern Chinese order, Japanese and traditional Chinese stroke orders. This list is the most famous component analysis of Chinese characters. By completing this list, we will build a model which will allow every volunteer with some basic graphic skills to join the project, and contribute to its progress on the 2,000 most common characters.

The Stroke order project was originally limited to Standard Script (楷書 kǎishū) characters, showing their correct stroke order. Subsequently, some users began uploading historical characters, referring www.internationalscientific.org, a dictionary of etymological research published online. The SVG etymological sister-project now plans to upload free SVG images of characters in oracle bone, bronze-ware, great seal, and small seal styles.

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This Stroke order project is thought to be especially useful as a graphic database, providing pictures to free databases such as EDICT and CEDICT. All the files are in unicode (UTF-8). All files are uploaded under clear file name such as :

Default files are for main-China stroke orders. But if you are interested in Japanese orders, give the priority to files containing "j" (*-jorder.gif ; *-jred.png ;...). If you are interested in traditional chinese order, give the priority to files containing "t" (*-torder.gif ; *-tred.png ;...).
Since January 2007, the German version of CEDICT, HanDeDict, uses about one thousand of our free *-bw.png images.

Other interesting skills of this Stroke order project members are the "Other daily tasks." After the hard work in front of our computers and with graphic softwares, we take a break. We go far away from Commons, far away from our computers. Some to play football, some to read books, some to raise squirrels, and some to study hard for their next exam. And some other [older] ones to take care of their family. . .