You can find the stroke order for many characters at 書き順 [top page]: stroke order for 栃.  This is the best site I've found so far for stroke order.  It includes lots of non-常用 and non-人名用 kanji and the list is growing every week.  It also doesn't have all the mistakes other databases do.

Just as a note, even it were "drag", which it is not, the stroke order would be the same as it is with 厂【がんだれ】.

Last edited by Nathanael (2008 November 09, 12:10 am)

Nathanael wrote:

You can find the stroke order for many characters at 書き順 [top page]: stroke order for 栃.  This is the best site I've found so far for stroke order.

That website does not show the starting points of the strokes, so you can't use the animation to tell the difference in this case. I will also caution beginners against using it for that reason, it's easy to make mistakes. (I used this site and learned many primitive wrongs until I switched to yamasa.cc).

What's interesting in this case is not the animation but the text description:
ポイントなど：
きへん、ノ、ノ、「万」、です

So they say to write it as two ノ (=drag primitive) instead of a cliff.

This question came up quite a while ago (more than a year I'm sure) and the general consensus IIRC was that even though it looks like drag in some (not all) fonts, it's cliff (left-to-right).
Anyway, although I still think there are a lot of mistakes or errors of omission with regard to stroke order in Heisig, I've also been coming to accept that there are a lot of cases where even among authorities there is no one truly agreed-upon correct way to write certain kanji. This might be one of those cases, although I'm just speculating.
I would say this, though -- even if it so happens that there's no agreement over whether it should be cliff or drag, I think your stroke direction should be probably consistent with the shape.  That is to say, if the first stroke is on an angle (drag), you should draw it right-to-left; if it's flat (cliff), you should draw it left-to-right.