Credits & data sources
Hanzi Garden stands on excellent open-source work. Thank you to these projects:
- Hanzi WriterMIT
Stroke-order animation and handwriting quiz engine.
- Hanzi Writer Data (from Make Me a Hanzi)Arphic Public License / LGPL
Per-character stroke vector data, self-hosted on this site.
- Make Me a HanziArphic Public License / LGPL
Radical and dictionary data used when building the character database.
- OpenCCApache 2.0
Simplified ↔ traditional character conversion (at build time).
- audio-cmnCC BY-SA
Planned source of recorded Mandarin syllable audio. Until recordings are added and reviewed, the site uses your browser's speech synthesis.
The HSK 1 character list, English glosses, example words and sentences were curated for this site. If you spot an error, corrections are welcome.