Credits & licences
CC-CEDICT
Pinyin and English definitions for the HSK vocabulary. Short meanings shown on Hanziro are edited from CC-CEDICT and are shared under the same licence.
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org)
Idioms (chengyu), set phrases, and words missing from CC-CEDICT, sourced from English Wiktionary via kaikki.org. Short English meanings were written with AI assistance from Wiktionary entries and are shared under the CC BY-SA licence.
Unihan Database (Unicode Consortium)
Readings and definitions from the Unicode Consortium for rare characters not found in CC-CEDICT.
Licence: Unicode License v3
jieba
Word frequency data used to rank dictionary search results by how common a word is.
Licence: MIT License
audio-cmn (Shtooka / SWAC, speakers Yue Tan and Chen Wang)
Native-speaker recordings of HSK words and of every toned syllable, used for words and single characters in the vocabulary pages and course lessons. Lesson clips are trimmed, filtered and loudness-normalised; slow versions are time-stretched.
Make Me a Hanzi / Hanzi Writer data
Stroke-order data for character animations and writing practice.
Licence: Arphic Public License
HSK 3.0 word lists (complete-hsk-vocabulary)
The HSK 3.0 (2021) vocabulary lists for levels 1–6 and 7–9, compiled by drkameleon.
Licence: MIT License
Example sentences and short meanings
Example sentences and learner-friendly meanings for HSK 3.0 words were drafted with AI assistance and are being reviewed by our editors.
PaddleOCR (PP-OCRv4 models)
Text recognition for photo lookup in the dictionary. Runs entirely in your browser via ONNX Runtime Web (MIT License).
Licence: Apache License 2.0
HSK 2012 word lists
Official HSK 1–6 vocabulary lists (Hanban), as compiled in audio-cmn.
Licence: Word lists