Stroke-order sources & licenses

Animation uses Hanzi Writer 3.7.3, © 2014 David Chanin, under the MIT License.

Character stroke data comes from hanzi-writer-data 2.0.1, derived from Make Me a Hanzi and Arphic fonts. © 1999 Arphic Technology Co., Ltd.; © 2016 Shaunak Kishore. Data is distributed under the Arphic Public License. See the upstream copyright notice.

The original stroke outlines and median trajectories are unchanged. LittleHanzi adds a character identity and provenance container, dated 14 November 2026. This container and its stroke data are freely available under the same Arphic Public License: use “Download data” in each available writing lesson to obtain the resource. These data rights do not change the separate licenses of unrelated application code and stories.

Data and software are provided without warranty under their respective licenses. They may be copied, shared and modified under those terms; retain all applicable license and copyright notices.

Writing standard

These lessons teach the exact simplified character displayed on the page. Stroke order is reviewed against GF 0023—2020, Stroke Orders of the Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters, published by China’s Ministry of Education and State Language Commission. This is a mainland simplified-Chinese teaching convention. Other regions can use different conventions; an alternative is not automatically incorrect.

Unverified or unavailable data is not shown as a verified animation. A typeface in surrounding text can look different from the writing model: the writing grid’s static and animated strokes always use the same outlines.