This page lists known problems with some of the files.

Duplicate files

The following files seem to have been duplicated during the creation of the KanjiVG files.

  • 0514e-Hyougai.svg and 0514e-Jinmei.svg are essentially the same variant, but with slightly different stroke positions.
  • 07149-Jinmei.svg is an unnecessary duplicate of 07149.svg with slightly different stroke positions.

Kanji with unusual stroke orders

This section lists cases of unusual stroke orders in the files.

  • 05bb6-Kaisho.svg has strokes 2 and 3 of the 豕 element swapped from the usual order, but none of the other -Kaisho files containing a 豕 element features this stroke order.

kvg:phon is undocumented

The meaning of the kvg:phon attribute has never been clearly documented or even publicly explained. Some of them consist of sequences of numbers separated with plus signs, the meaning of which is unclear.

kvg:type alphabetical codes are undocumented

The meaning of the alphabetical letters after the values of kvg:type have never been clearly documented or even publicly explained.