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Why does the right side radical strokes order
[踵](http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E8%B8%B5#kanji-31904) are different than
[重](http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E9%87%8D%E3%81%84#kanji-27475) alone?
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Why does the right side radical of 踵 have different stroke order than 重?
There are sometimes more than one acceptable stroke order. The Japanese
wikipedia article on [stroke
order](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AD%86%E9%A0%86) mentions that there is
not always a single correct stroke order - some kanji have two or more which
are commonly used, and also sometimes the stroke order changes when writing
行書{ぎょうしょ}. In 1958, the Ministry of Education in Japan published a document
which showed stroke orders for the then 881 kanji on the 'education' list:

>
> 本書に取りあげた筆順は、学習指導上の観点から、一つの文字については一つの形に統一されているが、このことは本書に掲げられた以外の筆順で、従来行われてきたものを誤りとするものではない。

That is, one stroke order per character was given for teaching, but that did
not mean that stroke orders which had been used in the past should be
considered incorrect.

For 踵 specifically, I don't think there is an 'official' determination in
Japan on how it should be written, although I agree it would be normal to
follow the stroke order for 重.

It may be that some of the stroke orders on that site are taken from Chinese
sources, where there are official guidelines for more characters. For example,
[here](http://stroke-
order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/characterQueryResult.do?word=%E8%B8%B5) is an
official Taiwanese source (Ministry of Education) which uses the same one as
you link.
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