Credits & licences

Ming is built on open work by many people. Thank you. Below is what we use and under which licence; where a licence lets you reuse that material, you can, under the same licence.

Words and meanings

• CC-CEDICT — the source of Ming's English meanings and pinyin, © MDBG and the CC-CEDICT contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Ming's word meanings are adapted from it (shortened and edited), and those adapted meanings are shared under the same licence. mdbg.net
• complete-hsk-vocabulary by drkameleon — the HSK 3.0 word lists, MIT licence. GitHub
• json_hsk by LiudmilaLV — HSK glosses. GitHub
• pinyin-data by mozillazg — per-character pinyin, MIT licence. GitHub

Example sentences

• Tatoeba — many example sentences and their translations come from tatoeba.org, licensed under CC BY 2.0 FR by their contributors. Some sentences have been edited.

Character strokes

• Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore and hanzi-writer-data by David Chanin — stroke shapes and stroke counts, derived from fonts by Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. and distributed under the Arphic Public License. Make Me a Hanzi · hanzi-writer-data

Fonts

• Archivo by Omnibus-Type and Noto Sans SC by Google — SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Software

The app is built with React Native, Expo, Supabase, ts-fsrs, Zustand and other open-source libraries, used under their MIT, Apache 2.0 and similar licences. Their licence texts ship with the libraries themselves.

Something missing?

If you made something Ming uses and we've got the credit wrong, email support@ming-app.org and we'll fix it.

Contact

Ming · support@ming-app.org