hanzi-writer

Why we included this project

A Chinese-learning app that drills writing skills is hard to build because the stroke order rendering is the hard part. Hanzi Writer handles that for you: it's a small JavaScript library that draws simplified and traditional characters as animated stroke-order paths and exposes enough hooks to turn them into practice quizzes where learners trace strokes and get checked on their input. The stroke and SVG data ships in a separate package under a permissive license, so you can bundle it offline and adapt it to your own lesson flow. It works from a plain script tag or through npm and stays light enough for small teams to drop into a project without building the rendering from scratch. If teaching people to write Chinese characters is part of your product, this removes the most tedious work.