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+# <ruby lang="ja">字<rp>(</rp><rt>じ</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>ちゃん
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+<ruby lang="ja">字<rp>(</rp><rt>じ</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>ちゃん is the Discord bot for the Tegaki Tuesday handwriting challenge. For more information on the challenge, please visit the [website](https://tegakituesday.com).
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+She is written in Rust using the [serenity](https://github.com/serenity-rs/serenity) crate, and the overall structure of the codebase is based on [official example 6](https://github.com/serenity-rs/serenity/tree/current/examples/e06_sample_bot_structure). If you want to make a Discord bot using serenity, please refer to the official examples rather than this repository because I probably don't know what I'm doing.
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+Stroke order diagrams are sourced via linking from [mistval/kanji_images](https://github.com/mistval/kanji_images).
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+Kanji lists are modified from [ffe4/kanji-lists](https://github.com/ffe4/kanji-lists), with the addition of [Hyōgai kanji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%8Dgai_kanji).
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+### Usage
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+You are free to use the code in this repository however you like under the license terms, *provided* you do not use the "Tegaki Tuesday" or "字ちゃん" names in your derivative projects. Thank you!