Data sources and credits
Flashbao uses dictionaries, linguistic datasets and official exam lists. This page shows what we use each source for and gives its licence where available.
We don't use generative AI to write flashcard text. Definitions, example sentences and character notes come from the sources below.
- Definitions, pinyin and measure words
- Character origins, component roles and book-corpus word frequency
- Word origins, classical citations, related words and the Chengyu listEnglish Wiktionary · Extracted with Wiktextract via kaikki.org
- Character glosses, readings and radicals
- Character decomposition
- Related words (synonyms, antonyms, hierarchies)
- Word frequency and part of speechSUBTLEX-CH · Cai & Brysbaert (2010), PLoS ONE
- Example sentences
- HSK 2.0, HSK 3.0, YCT and BCT deck membership; HSK 3.0 grammar levelsChinese Testing International · Source pinyin selects the matching CC-CEDICT reading. Official grammar examples validate matching only; displayed examples come from the sentence source above
- TOCFL deck membershipSteering Committee for the Test of Proficiency-Huayu (SC-TOP) · Source pinyin selects the matching CC-CEDICT reading
Licensing notes
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