CEDICT

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The CEDICT project was started by Paul Denisowski in 1997 and is maintained by a team on mdbg.net (a website registered for the purpose by Dutchman Dennis Vierkant) 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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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 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/  ?? ?? [han4 zi4] /Chinese character/CL:?|?/  

Example of a simple egrep search:

$ egrep -i ???? cedict.txt  ???? ???? [you3 yong3 wu2 mou2] /bold but not very astute/  

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History

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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" (possible copyright infringement)

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See also

• Adsotrans

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External links

• http://cc-cedict.org/ 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 " ? ", 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.

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References

Source of the article : Wikipedia