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Word definitions, pinyin and traditional forms. Adapted from CC-CEDICT (© Paul Andrew Denisowski and contributors); entries were cleaned, reformatted and in part rewritten.
Stroke order and stroke counts (Arphic Public License), and character readings, radicals and decomposition (derived from Unihan and cjklib, LGPL).
Computed by Chinesekit by counting how often each Chinese character occurs in Chinese Wikipedia (text © Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in each article's page history) and in Chinese sentences from Tatoeba (© Tatoeba contributors, CC BY 2.0 FR). Tatoeba sentences that contain personal names were left out of the count, so that common names do not push their characters up the ranking. Only character counts were taken; none of the source text is reproduced in the ranking. The weighting and the ranking method are our own.
Level assignments for words and characters, following the 2021 HSK 3.0 syllabus.
Chinese–English example sentences. The author of each sentence and its translation is credited beside it.
Plain-English definitions and some example sentences are written with an AI language model under a fixed beginner brief. Entries not yet checked by a person are labelled "Unreviewed".
The handwriting-style typeface used for characters.
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