Credits & data sources
Chikurin's curriculum is built from open, redistributable Japanese language data. We're grateful to the projects below and share their work under the same terms.
© EDRDG · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kanji meanings, on'yomi/kun'yomi readings, stroke counts and JLPT tags; vocabulary words, readings and parts of speech; and the kanji→component decomposition. Packaged as JSON by jmdict-simplified.
© scriptin · MIT / CC BY 4.0
The component build-up learning order that sequences our 100 levels (topological sort by composition, with corpus-frequency tie-breaks).
© Unicode, Inc.
Radical names — CJKRadicals, the Kangxi-radical and katakana character names, and Unihan kDefinition glosses.
© Steven Schultz · CC BY 3.0
Human-written component mnemonics, used only as grounding for our LLM-generated mnemonics — never reproduced verbatim. JSON packaged by jhspetersson/KanjiDamageApp.
Some of this data is licensed CC BY-SA; our derived curriculum data is shared under the same licence. Trademarks and copyrights remain with their owners.