jcklie / hanzi-website

Website to look up information about Hanzi, especially Heisig

hanzi-website

Simple website to display Heisig information, especially the decomposition for Chinese characters. The Heisig data comes from Remembering Simplified Hanzi: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters; J. W. Heisig & T. W. Richardson, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Development

This website is generated from a JSON file via Gatsby. To run the development server, install the Gatsby CLI and execute

gatsby develop

Acknowledgements

The Heisig data is owned by J. W. Heisig & T. W. Richardson, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. We use the repository from rouseabout/heisig which provides a XML database of the Heisig data (MIT License). We use the CC-CEDICT as our go-to dictionary (CC BY-SA 3.0). We use additional decomposition data from Loach JC, Wang J (2016) Optimizing the Learning Order of Chinese Characters Using a Novel Topological Sort Algorithm. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0163623 URL