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KanjiVG

Warning: this website is still very poor - we are working to improve it.

KanjiVG is a description of the sinographs (or kanji) used by the Japanese language. For each character, it provides a SVG file that gives the shape, direction and of each of its strokes. This file is also enriched with exhaustive information about the components of the character, the type of stroke employed, etc. See Format for detailed information.

Using KanjiVG, it is very easy to create stroke order diagrams or animations, kanji dictionaries, and many more.

Download

Here is the latest version of KanjiVG. This file is generated every day, provided a change has been commited to the git repository. Please be aware that it may still contains errors. We would appreciate to receive corrections if you discover a mistake.

All characters into one single XML file:

2011-10-29 release

One SVG file per character:

2011-10-29 release

Using

First, you may want to understand the format of the file.

Reporting errors

Although a huge amount of work has been invested into making KanjiVG error-free, there are probably many errors remaining in the data. We would really appreciate if you could report them to us. Normally, telling us the kanji where the error resides is sufficient for us to fix it.

Here is a list of incorrect kanji. This page is freely editable, so please feel free to add mistakes as you find them.

And a list of missing kanji.

Some conventions are being drafted.

Licence

Contact

You can use our Google Group in order to report mistakes, or discuss anything related to KanjiVG.

Related Projects

The GlyphWiki uses a dedicated language and generation engine to describe and generate kanji.