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  <h1>References</h1>
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<p>
  This page lists references on kanji which may be useful in creating
  or checking the data.
</p>

<h2>Works on KanjiVG</h2>

<p>
Apel, Ulrich, and Quint, Julien (2004): <i>Building a Graphetic
Dictionary for Japanese Kanji – Character Look Up Based on Brush
Strokes or Stroke Groups, and the Display of Kanji as Path
Data</i>. In: Zock, Michael, and Saint Dizier, Patrick: Proceeding of
the Workshop on Enhancing and Using Electronic Dictionaries, Coling
2004, Geneva;
pp. 36–39. <a href="https://aclanthology.org/W04-2106.pdf">Download
PDF</a>
</p>

<h2>References used by the KanjiVG creators</h2>

<p>
  The following references were used by the original KanjiVG authors to
  form the data.
</p>

<p>
  <i>DFKyoKaSho-W3-MP-RKSJ-H</i> by DynaLab and <i>A-OTF Kyoukasho ICA
    Pro L</i> by Morisawa and Company Limited were used as model fonts for
  KanjiVG.  The Morisawa font was used, for example, when the DynaLab
  font was lacking characters.
</p>

<p>
  <i>Hitsujun shidō no tebiki</i>, the official reference of the
  Ministry for Education (Monbushō), published by Hakubundō, Tokyo in
  1958, was used as reference for the stroke order of the Kyōiku Kanji.
  <a href="https://a4lg.com/downloads/library/a4lg/pdf/%E7%AD%86%E9%A0%86%E6%8C%87%E5%B0%8E%E3%81%AE%E6%89%8B%E3%81%B3%E3%81%8D.pdf">Download PDF</a>
</p>

<p>
  <i>Kaigyōsō – Hitsujun jitai jiten (楷行草 筆順・字体字典)</i>,
  Emori Kenji (江守 賢治) (ed.), Tokyo. author EMORI, Kenji, published
  in 2003 by Sanseidō (三省堂), Tokyo was used as reference for
  the <a href="glossary.html#kaisho">kaisho</a> characters.
</p>

<p id="kanjidic">
  <i>Kanjidic</i>, an electronic kanji dictionary. The documentation
  is found
  at <a href="http://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project">KANJIDIC
  Project</a> at edrdg.org.
</p>

<h2>Unicode references</h2>

<p>
  These are documents from the Unicode consortium on their standard.
</p>

<ul>
  <li id="cjk-strokes">
    <a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U31C0.pdf">CJK
    Strokes</a> is the character table for the CJK Strokes block of
    Unicode. Further information on the meaning of the strokes can be
    found at the <a href="#cjk-strokes-proposal">proposal</a> for the
    block.
  </li>
  <li id="cjk-strokes-proposal">
    <a href="https://unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3063.pdf">
      Proposed additions to the CJK Strokes block of the UCS (PDF)
    </a> explains the meaning of the CJK Strokes and the Chinese words
    the letter codes are based on. This also has some examples of
    usage of the stroke types, and examples of the various shapes of
    strokes these codepoints are meant to represent.
  </li>
  <li id="cjk-rad-sup-to-unified">
    A page titled

    <a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_2E80.html">
      CJK Radicals Supplement
    </a>

    provides a crossreference from the

    <a href="glossary.html#cjk-radicals-supplement">
      CJK Radicals Supplement
    </a>

    to the
    
    <a href="glossary.html#cjk-unified-ideographs">
      CJK Unified Ideographs
    </a>

    section of Unicode
  </li>
</ul>

<h2>Other references</h2>

<ul>
  <li id="jis-jiten-ref">
    The JIS Kanji Jiten (JIS 漢字字典) is the kanji dictionary of the
    Japanese Standards Association. This kanji dictionary is regarded as
    authoritative on kanji radicals by Jim Breen, the author of Kanjidic,
    upon which KanjiVG was originally based, thus the radicals given in
    this reference are used in Kanjidic as the "traditional" radical,
    which sometimes diverge from the radical used by this project as
    <a href="svg-format.html#radical-general">general</a>
    or <a href="svg-format.html#radical-tradit">tradit</a>.
  </li>
  <li id="nelson">
    <i>The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary</i>
    by Andrew N. Nelson, published in 1962 is the original source
    for <a href="glossary.html#nelson-radicals">the Nelson
    radicals</a> used by Jim Breen's <a href="#kanjidic">Kanjidic</a>.
  </li>
</ul>