Contrarily, there is no One True Stroke Order to write cursive Japanese or Chinese. See for example 亦 http://www.sfzd.cn/shufa6/7550d88277ef1dc2f2bb5f4c1bdf6401

Contrarily, there is no One True Stroke Order to write cursive Japanese or Chinese. See for example 亦 http://www.sfzd.cn/shufa6/7550d88277ef1dc2f2bb5f4c1bdf64018.jpg http://www.sfzd.cn/shufa6/7550d88277ef1dc2f2bb5f4c1bdf64018.... Some authors analyze it as the bottom 火 component to be written as four dots, while later authors increasingly analyze it in the form you see today, where the middle strokes are written first. Today, those who do not take up calligraphy recognize only the latter form and order. There is a general tendency for some strokes to be written before others, but nothing is set in stone.