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: Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese Pinyin (several pronunciations) American English (several) , it had 119,494 entries in UTF-8.
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 (~156,000 Chinese entries) CFDICT (~44,000 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) May 2017: CHDICT (11,000 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.
References
External links
CC-CEDICT Editor Project home page
more information on the formatting of CC-CEDICT
MDBG free online Chinese–English dictionary uses CC-CEDICT, supports adding / editing entries and offers recent CC-CEDICT downloads. Flashonary is a Chinese-English Dictionary with integrated flashcards that uses CC-CEDICT. Example of CEDICT data for the han character " 中 ", use by Unihan (Section "Chinese Compounds") Chinese Dictionaries Discussion group about Chinese->"foreign language" dictionaries The homepage of Paul Denisowski, the founder of CEDICT www.clearchinese.com uses CEDICT Mandarin Text Project uses CEDICT HanDeDict @ Zydeo: Open-source Chinese-German dictionary CHDICT kínai-magyar szótár: Open-source Chinese-Hungarian dictionary Zhonga Chinese-English dictionary with handwriting recognition and pronunciation, uses CEDICT. HSK.HELP uses CEDICT