Data sources & licences
Where each kind of data on this site comes from, and the licence it is used under.
Definitions
Definitions on this site are derived from CC-CEDICT and are available under the same licence. All 8,105 characters of the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters (2013) have a page; for those CC-CEDICT does not have, the definition comes from Unihan or was written for this site.
HSK word lists
complete-hsk-vocabulary by Yanis Zafirópulos MIT
English search
Example sentences
Traditional-character sentences are shown converted to simplified characters. Pinyin under sentences is generated.
Character data
Radical, components and origin notes.
Stroke order
hanzi-writer-data Arphic Public License
Stroke data is derived from the fonts Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai. Hanzi Writer draws the animation.
Simplified ⇄ traditional conversion
OpenCC by BYVoid Apache 2.0
opencc-js by the nk2028 project MIT
The dictionaries of the Simplified ⇄ Traditional tool. The Text Analyzer converts word by word with this site’s own word list.
Radical numbers and Cangjie codes
Unicode Han Database (Unihan) Unicode License v3
Unicode 18.0. Zhuyin is converted from the pinyin readings.
Ancient forms
Ancient Chinese characters project on Wikimedia Commons Public domain
Oracle bone, bronze, bamboo and silk, small seal and clerical forms. Each glyph on a character page links to its file page, which names its contributors. Files are filed under traditional characters, so the forms shown for a simplified character are those of its traditional form. Small seal forms follow the Shuowen Jiezi (c. 100 CE). The period under each glyph is the period of that script style, not the date of a particular inscription.
Logo lettering
The words Chinese–English Dictionary beside the logo.