Chinese Character Web vs Synonyms

The Chinese Character Web API (CCDB) is a free, read-only JSON API built on the Unicode Consortium's Unihan Database, covering Mandarin and Cantonese readings, Japanese on'yomi/kun'yomi, radicals, stroke counts, definitions, and simplified/traditional variant mappings for CJK Unified Ideographs, filterable by character-set encodings like GB2312, Big5, and Shift JIS. A live GET against /version returned a real 200 JSON body and Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * on the same Apache-served host.

The Synonyms API is STANDS4 Network's word-lookup service, returning synonym, antonym, and part-of-speech data for a submitted word as either JSON or XML from a single GET request against stands4.com's shared services endpoint — the same backend that powers sibling STANDS4 properties like Rhymes.com and Definitions.net. A live GET and OPTIONS preflight against that endpoint both echoed `access-control-allow-origin: *`; the service is free for up to 100 queries/day, with a paid commercial license available by contacting STANDS4 directly.