Re: [Lingo] Stroke order for 糸-radical

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

steve smith writes:
 > Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > I have here a slight problem: I am using an iPhone-app for doing 
 > > kanji-repetitions and today I noticed a mistake in stroke orders. The 

 > > stroke orders of the left radical of 組 and 細 are wrong. In the 
 > > program it is not written like 糸 but in the lower part the order of 
 > > the middle and left stroke are reversed. I mean that I would write it: 
 > > middle, left, right but it is written left, middle, right.

In the 舌皛逅跂勉闕辞典 and 広辞苑, unfortunately, although 糸 is
written middle, left, right, in 組 the itohen is given as a whole,
then the rest stroke by stroke.

 > I used the animated kanji on the The Yamasa Institute kanji dictionary 
 > for learning my kanji.  They also do left, middle, right.

Note that for 糸 they also do it middle, left, right.  So I can't give
you a reliable statement, but I suspect that in combinations the
simpler form is either allowed or even preferred.

I could ask my 6th grade daughter.  I'm sure she knows. :-)