# Chinese species labels

`labels_zh.json` is a lossless conversion of the scientific/common-name pairs in
BirdNET-Analyzer v2.4.0's Chinese label table. The source contains 6,522 model
classes, of which 6,346 have Chinese names. Untranslated labels retain the
upstream name. This is the model's worldwide vocabulary, not a checklist of
species present in China.

- Source: [BirdNET-Analyzer Chinese labels](https://github.com/birdnet-team/BirdNET-Analyzer/blob/63871af6de567e1f12b86d2b7dec9f2d31aad90f/birdnet_analyzer/labels/V2.4/BirdNET_GLOBAL_6K_V2.4_Labels_zh.txt)
- Version: v2.4.0, commit `63871af6de567e1f12b86d2b7dec9f2d31aad90f`
- Copyright: BirdNET Team; the source repository's MIT license is retained in
  `labels_zh_LICENSE.txt`.
- Transformation: split each source line at its first `_` and serialize the
  resulting mapping as UTF-8 JSON. Scientific taxonomy aliases are resolved by
  the application at runtime.

BirdNET's acoustic models have separate CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 terms. No acoustic model
is included in this label file. The upstream source-code/model license split is
documented in [BirdNET-Analyzer's README](https://github.com/birdnet-team/BirdNET-Analyzer/tree/63871af6de567e1f12b86d2b7dec9f2d31aad90f#license).

Live BirdNET-Go dictionaries take priority over these bundled names. The bundled
table is a Simplified Chinese fallback for `zh` and `zh-cn`; it is never used as
a Traditional Chinese dictionary.