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

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CEDICT is a text file; other programs (or simply Notepad or egrep or equivalent) are needed to search and display it. This project is considered a standard Chinese-English reference on the Internet and 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 [1].

Features:

  • Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
  • Pinyin (several pronunciations)
  • American English (several)
  • As of 14 February 2016, it had 114,087 entries [2] 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/

    CEDICT has shown the way to some other projects:

  • HanDeDict (127,000 Chinese entries)
  • Chinese-German free dictionary
  • CFDICT (200,000 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)
  • 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" (possible copyright infringement)

    • References

    CEDICT Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA