Hanzi Garden
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Data licenses & attribution

Hanzi Garden is built on open data. Each source below requires — and deserves — attribution.

Dictionary

Dictionary entries come from CC-CEDICT, a community-maintained Chinese–English dictionary published by MDBG, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Referenced work: CEDICT © 1997–1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski.

Cantonese (Jyutping) readings come from CC-Canto © Pleco Software, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Words without a CC-Canto reading are composed from its per-character readings. Because the base dictionary is built from Mandarin-centric sources, Cantonese-only words and phrases may be missing.

ShareAlike: the dictionary content as presented here — including our merged Cantonese readings and derived romanizations — remains available under CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC-Canto portions under CC BY-SA 3.0); changes were made to the original datasets.

Stroke order data

Character stroke data comes from Make Me a Hanzi, packaged per character by hanzi-writer-data and animated with hanzi-writer (MIT). The stroke data derives from fonts by Arphic Technology and is used under the Arphic Public License.

Vocabulary lists

  • HSK 3.0 word lists (levels 1–6, band 7–9) via krmanik/HSK-3.0, compiled from Pleco's HSK 3.0 list (MIT); original standard published by the Chinese Ministry of Education (2021).
  • TOCFL word lists (7 bands, 2018 revision) published by SC-TOP, cleaned CSV export via tomcumming/tocfl-word-list (public domain / Unlicense).

Example sentences

Mandarin–English sentence pairs come from Tatoeba, licensed under CC BY 2.0 FR.

Fonts

Generated PDF practice sheets embed a subset of DejaVu Sans for pinyin text (license). Hanzi in PDFs are rendered as vector outlines from the stroke data above, not from a font. Zhuyin in PDFs uses glyph outlines extracted from Noto Sans CJK TC (SIL Open Font License 1.1). Display headings load Noto Serif SC/TC webfonts from Google Fonts (also OFL), with system fonts as fallback.

Open-source software

Hanzi Garden is built with free, MIT-licensed open-source software — thank you to the maintainers of Astro, React, hanzi-writer, pdf-lib (and @pdf-lib/fontkit), better-sqlite3, nanostores and ts-fsrs. Audio pronunciation uses your browser's built-in speech synthesis — no external service is contacted.