Emeici.com Hanzi Stroke Order & Chinese Names

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1. Make Me a Hanzi (Stroke Vectors & Radical Decomposition)

Character stroke vector outlines, median coordinates, radical structures, and decomposition data are extracted from Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore:

  • Stroke graphics (graphics.txt) are derived from Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai and distributed under the Arphic Public License (APL).
  • Character dictionary (dictionary.txt) is derived from Unicode Unihan and CJKlib and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL-3.0) or later.

Make Me a Hanzi Upstream Notice (COPYING)

dictionary.txt is derived from:
    Unihan - http://unicode.org/charts/unihan.html
    CJKlib - https://github.com/cburgmer/cjklib

You can redistribute and/or modify dictionary.txt under the terms of the GNU
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should have recieved a copy of this license (the file "LGPL") along with
dictionary.txt; if not, see see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.



graphics.txt is derived from:
    Arphic PL KaitiM GB - https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/fonts-arphic-gkai00mp/
    Arphic PL UKai - https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/fonts-arphic-ukai/

You can redistribute and/or modify graphics.txt under the terms of the Arphic
Public License as published by Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. You should have
received a copy of this license (the directory "APL") along with graphics.txt;
if not, see <http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/chinese-fonts-truetype/LICENSE>.

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2. CC-CEDICT (Chinese-English Dictionary Definitions)

Chinese-English lexical definitions and readings displayed on character pages incorporate entries from CC-CEDICT (originally founded as CEDICT by Paul Andrew Denisowski and maintained by the CC-CEDICT community and MDBG).

CC-CEDICT data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Modification Notice: Emeici selects high-frequency entries, formats numbered Pinyin into tone marks, and adds independent native-speaker naming and tattoo commentary alongside the dictionary citations; all dictionary-derived excerpts remain governed by CC BY-SA 4.0.

3. Hanzi Writer (Interactive Stroke Animation & Quiz Engine)

Interactive stroke playback and handwriting quizzes are powered by Hanzi Writer v3.5.0 (MIT License), self-hosted locally in /assets/vendor/hanzi-writer.min.js with its original copyright notice intact.

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Copyright (c) 2014 David Chanin

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4. U.S. Social Security Administration Baby Names List (CC0 / Public Domain)

Popular English first names featured in our /name-in-chinese/ collection draw upon historical frequency lists published in the public domain by the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).