Credits
This app is built on the work of others. Thank you to everyone below.
KanjiVG
Ulrich Apel and contributors
- Used for
- Animated stroke-order diagrams for the kana.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
- Source
- https://kanjivg.tagaini.net
- What we did with it
- Stroke paths were taken from KanjiVG (commit 422b5538) and converted to a compact data file. The converted stroke data is shared under the same licence, CC BY-SA 3.0.
JMdict
Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG)
- Used for
- Word meanings, readings and parts of speech.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
- Source
- https://www.edrdg.org/edrdg/licence.html
- What we did with it
- Imported into our database with the source id kept on every entry. Entries may be shortened or combined with our own notes. Data derived from JMdict is shared under the same licence, CC BY-SA 4.0.
KANJIDIC2
Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG)
- Used for
- Kanji readings, meanings and stroke counts.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
- Source
- https://www.edrdg.org/edrdg/licence.html
- What we did with it
- Imported into our database with the source kept on every entry. Data derived from KANJIDIC2 is shared under the same licence, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tatoeba
Tatoeba contributors
- Used for
- Example sentences and their translations.
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0 FR (some sentences CC0 1.0)
- Source
- https://tatoeba.org
- What we did with it
- Each sentence is licensed individually and keeps its own author and licence. Only sentences with a clear licence are used. Sentences are not changed, except for the word splitting we add.
mecab-ipadic (with the kuromoji tokenizer)
Nara Institute of Science and Technology; Atilika (kuromoji)
- Used for
- Splitting Japanese sentences into words and finding their readings.
- Licence
- NAIST licence (permissive) and Apache License 2.0
- Source
- https://github.com/sglkc/kuromoji.js
- What we did with it
- Run on our own computers when content is prepared; the dictionary is not sent to learners.
Noto Sans JP and Noto Serif JP
Google and Adobe, with contributors
- Used for
- The typefaces used for Japanese and Latin text.
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Source
- https://fonts.google.com/noto
- What we did with it
- Used unmodified, self-hosted by the app.