diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bfd7c68..82179ce 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     "build": "node-gyp rebuild",
     "build:prebuild": "node scripts/prebuild.js",
     "test": "npm run test:unit && npm run test:window && npm run test:shell && npm run test:a11y && npm run test:identity && npm run test:pane && npm run test:gpu",
-    "test:unit": "node test/smoke.js && node test/text.js && node test/bezels.js && node test/primitives.js && node test/path-stream.js && node test/dashes.js",
+    "test:unit": "node test/smoke.js && node test/text.js && node test/bezels.js && node test/primitives.js && node test/clip-rule.js && node test/path-stream.js && node test/dashes.js",
     "test:window": "node test/clips.js && node test/states.js && node test/dnd.js && node test/ime.js && node test/popup.js",
     "test:shell": "node test/shell.js",
     "test:a11y": "node test/uia.js",
diff --git a/src/surface.cc b/src/surface.cc
index 1baf3bf..467940b 100644
--- a/src/surface.cc
+++ b/src/surface.cc
@@ -901,15 +901,21 @@ Napi::Value CtxStroke(const Napi::CallbackInfo& info) {
   return info.Env().Undefined();
 }
 
+// ctxClip(surface, evenOdd): the flag ctxFill takes, so canvas's
+// clip(path, 'evenodd') — an SVG <clipPath> with clip-rule="evenodd" — cuts
+// a ring rather than the square around it. Absent is nonzero, as before.
 Napi::Value CtxClip(const Napi::CallbackInfo& info) {
   Surface* s = Arg(info);
   if (!s || !s->dc) return info.Env().Undefined();
-  ID2D1PathGeometry* geometry = BuildPath(s, false);
+  const bool evenOdd = info.Length() > 1 && info[1].ToBoolean().Value();
+  ID2D1PathGeometry* geometry = BuildPath(s, evenOdd);
   if (!geometry) return info.Env().Undefined();
 
   // An axis-aligned rectangle under an axis-aligned transform is the clip
   // every paint pass sets, and PushAxisAlignedClip is far cheaper than a
-  // layer with a geometric mask. Anything else takes the layer.
+  // layer with a geometric mask. Anything else takes the layer. The rule
+  // does not enter into it: one rect is one figure wound once, which either
+  // fill mode cuts alike.
   D2D1_RECT_F bounds = {};
   bool rectangular = false;
   if (s->path.size() == 1 && s->path[0].op == PathOp::Rect) {
diff --git a/test/clip-rule.js b/test/clip-rule.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4ecb35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/clip-rule.js
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+'use strict';
+
+// ctxClip(surface, evenOdd): the fill rule of a clip, as ctxFill takes it.
+// canvas's clip(path, 'evenodd') is how ntk's SvgView cuts an element to a
+// <clipPath> with clip-rule="evenodd" (sidorares/ntk#529), and react-x11's
+// context had nothing to hand it to — CtxClip always built its geometry with
+// the winding fill mode, so a ring clipped a fill to the whole square around
+// it.
+//
+// Checked: a ring of two rects wound the same way clips evenodd to the ring,
+// its hole left alone; without the flag, or with it false, the same path
+// clips nonzero, hole and all; and one rect — which takes
+// PushAxisAlignedClip rather than a layer — clips the same under either rule.
+
+const assert = require('node:assert');
+const win32 = require('../index.js');
+
+win32.start(() => {});
+
+const W = 60;
+
+/** Fill the whole surface white through a clip to `path`, over black. */
+function clipped(path, ...args) {
+  const s = win32.createSurface(W, W, 1);
+  win32.ctxSetFillColor(s, 0, 0, 0, 1);
+  win32.ctxFillRect(s, 0, 0, W, W);
+  win32.ctxSave(s);
+  win32.ctxBeginPath(s);
+  path(s);
+  win32.ctxClip(s, ...args);
+  win32.ctxSetFillColor(s, 1, 1, 1, 1);
+  win32.ctxFillRect(s, 0, 0, W, W);
+  win32.ctxRestore(s);
+  const pixels = win32.ctxGetImageData(s, 0, 0, W, W);
+  win32.releaseSurface(s);
+  return pixels;
+}
+const red = (pixels, x, y) => pixels[(y * W + x) * 4];
+
+// a 40px square with a 20px hole, both wound the same way: nonzero fills the
+// hole, evenodd leaves it
+const ring = (s) => {
+  win32.ctxRect(s, 10, 10, 40, 40);
+  win32.ctxRect(s, 20, 20, 20, 20);
+};
+const square = (s) => win32.ctxRect(s, 10, 10, 40, 40);
+
+{
+  const p = clipped(ring, true);
+  assert.equal(red(p, 15, 15), 255, 'evenodd: the ring is drawn');
+  assert.equal(red(p, 30, 30), 0, 'evenodd: the hole is filled — the clip was cut nonzero');
+  assert.equal(red(p, 5, 5), 0, 'evenodd: something outside the ring was drawn');
+}
+
+for (const [name, args] of [
+  ['no flag', []],
+  ['false', [false]],
+]) {
+  const p = clipped(ring, ...args);
+  assert.equal(red(p, 15, 15), 255, `${name}: the ring is drawn`);
+  assert.equal(red(p, 30, 30), 255, `${name}: nonzero leaves the hole filled`);
+  assert.equal(red(p, 5, 5), 0, `${name}: something outside the ring was drawn`);
+}
+
+{
+  // one rect is one figure wound once: either rule cuts the same pixels
+  const a = clipped(square, true);
+  const b = clipped(square, false);
+  let differ = 0;
+  for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i += 4) if (a[i] !== b[i]) differ++;
+  assert.equal(differ, 0, `one rect clips differently under the two rules, ${differ} pixels apart`);
+}
+
+win32.stop();
+console.log('clip-rule: ok');