Data sources and licenses

TraceHanzi stands on the work of these open projects. Thank you to everyone who built and maintains them.

• Make Me a Hanzi. Character decomposition, etymology hints and stroke graphics. Graphics derived from fonts by Arphic Technology under the Arphic Public License; dictionary data under the LGPL.
• Hanzi Writer and hanzi-writer-data. Stroke animation and quiz engine (MIT). Stroke data under the Arphic Public License.
• CC-CEDICT. Chinese to English definitions, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
• HSK 3.0 lists (ivankra/hsk30). Cleaned HSK 3.0 character and vocabulary lists (MIT), based on the official standard.
• Tatoeba. Example sentences and translations, licensed CC BY 2.0 FR.
• FrequencyWords. Word frequency counts from subtitles, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
• pypinyin. Pinyin for example sentences (MIT).

Reusing our data

Definitions and sentences on this site are shared under the same licenses as their sources. Where a page combines CC-CEDICT data, that combination is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribution: TraceHanzi and the projects listed above.