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Wikipedia / CEDICT

The CEDICT project was started by Paul Denisowski in 1997 and is maintained by a team on mdbg.net under the name CC-CEDICT, with the aim to provide a complete Chinese to English dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters.

Content

CEDICT is a text file; other programs (or simply Notepad or egrep or equivalent) are needed to search and display it. This project is used by several other Chinese-English projects. The Unihan Database uses CEDICT data for most of its information about character compounds, but this is auxiliary and is explicitly not a part of the main Unicode database.

Features:

The basic format of a CEDICT entry is:

Traditional Simplified [pin1 yin1] /American English equivalent 1/equivalent 2/
漢字 汉字 [han4 zi4] /Chinese character/CL:個|个/

Example of a simple egrep search:

$ egrep -i 有勇無謀 cedict.txt
有勇無謀 有勇无谋 [you3 yong3 wu2 mou2] /bold but not very astute/

History

Related projects

CEDICT has shown the way to some other projects:

  • HanDeDict (~149,000 Chinese entries) for German

  • CFDICT (~60,000 entries) for French

  • Some older CEDICT data is also found in the Adsotrans dictionary.

  • February 2012: ChE-DICC, the Spanish-Chinese free dictionary starts (currently beta)

  • CHDICT (~19,000 entries) for Hungarian

  • CC-Canto is Pleco Software's addition of Cantonese language readings in Jyutping transcription to CC-CEDICT

  • Cantonese CEDICT features Cantonese language readings in Yale transcription and has Cantonese-specific words, many of which were taken from "A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang" in possible copyright infringement.

  • CC-CIDICT (over 124,000 entries) is a free, open-source Chinese–Indonesian dictionary. It is a direct derivative of the CC-CEDICT project. The project is community-managed and released under a Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

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