Edit: Chinese Character Wiki

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Body (markdown + directives) The Chinese Character Wiki is a community-maintained database of Chinese character information. It powers the character breakdowns and explanations throughout the site. ## Component types Chinese characters are composed of components. Each component has a role in the character — it may contribute meaning, sound, or both. The wiki categorises components into eight types: - [the meaning component](article:meaning-component) — contributes to the character's meaning. - [the sound component](article:sound-component) — contributes to the character's pronunciation. - [the iconic component](article:iconic-component) — a pictographic representation of meaning. - [the remnant component](article:remnant-component) — a vestige of an older, more complex form. - [the simplified component](article:simplified-component) — a simplification of a traditional component. - [the deleted component](article:deleted-component) — a component that was removed during simplification. - [the distinguishing component](article:distinguishing-component) — added to distinguish similar characters. - [the unknown component](article:unknown-component) — the component's role is unclear. ## How to contribute Anyone can suggest edits to character data. Navigate to a character page and click "Edit". Your edit will be reviewed by a wiki editor before being published. If you have wiki editor permissions, your edits are automatically approved and you can review edits from other contributors. ## Data sources The wiki aggregates data from multiple sources: - **Unihan** — Unicode standard character properties - **CC-CEDICT** — Collaborative Chinese-English dictionary - **AnimCJK** — Stroke order animations - **MakeMeAHanzi** — Character decomposition data - **Shuowen Jiezi** — Ancient character etymology - **Baxter-Sagart** — Old Chinese pronunciation reconstructions - **Zhengzhang** — Historical phonology - **Jun Da corpus** — Character frequency in books - **SUBTLEX-CH** — Character frequency in film subtitles

Use Markdown for prose. [[slug]] for article links, [[simp|trad]] for character links, [[simp|trad|pinyin]] for sense links. Directives use :name(attr=val){children}.

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