Sources & licences

Dictionary

Chinese-English dictionary entries come from CC-CEDICT / MDBG, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Definitions and derived dictionary exports retain that attribution and share-alike licence. This does not imply MDBG endorsement.

Characters and handwriting

Structural records and stroke information use Make Me a Hanzi. Structural data is available under LGPL-3.0-or-later; graphic stroke data includes Arphic Technology material under the Arphic Public License. Handwriting matching uses local templates derived from this collection.

Hanzi Writer provides stroke animation. Pinyin Pro, OpenCC.js and relationship.js support pronunciation, script conversion and family terms. Full third-party licence texts are available in the licence directory.

Practice content

Reading passages, exercises and site explanations were prepared for Hanzi Tools. They are practice materials, not reproduced Reddit posts or licensed commercial courses. Mnemonics are memory aids rather than historical derivations.

Photography

Photographs on this site come from the WordPress Photo Directory under its CC0 terms. Copyright or exclusive ownership is not claimed by Hanzi Tools.

• lantern street: Makarand Mane, CC0.
• study notebook: Tawhid Sadman, CC0.
• covered bridge: Brandon Zhang, CC0.

Identity and software

The Hanzi Tools symbol and page design were created for this site. WordPress is free software under the GPL. The custom theme and plugin are distributed with their source and licence notices.