CEDICT

CEDICT

The CEDICT project was started by Paul Denisowski in 1997 with the aim to provide a complete Chinese to American English dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters.

Content

CEDICT is merely a text file; other programs 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 [http://unicode.org/charts/unihan.html] . CEDICT is not used for Unihan's definitions and pronunciations of individual characters.

The basic format of a CEDICT entry is: Traditional Simplified [pin1 yin1] /American English equivalent 1/equivalent 2/ 中國 中国 [Zhong1 guo2] /China/Middle Kingdom/

CEDICT is now primarily encoded in UTF-8, but compatibility versions are available in GB2312 and Big5. The compatibility versions omit either the Traditional or the Simplified characters respectively.

Features:
* Traditional and Simplified Chinese
* Pinyin (several pronunciations)
* American English (several)

As of September 2008, it has 77.597 Chinese entries [http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=cc-cedict] .

History

Sub-projects

CEDICT has shown the way to some other projects, such HanDeDict (127.000 Chinese entries), the Chinese-German free dictionary. A CFDICT Chinese-French dictionary and a Hungrarian-Chinese dictionary project are under discussion. Some older CEDICT data is also found in the Adsotrans dictionary.

External links

* [http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary] uses CC-CEDICT, supports adding / editing entries and offers recent CC-CEDICT downloads.
* [http://cc-cedict.org/wiki/format:format more information on the formatting of CC-CEDICT]
* [http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=4E2D Example of CEDICT data for the han character " 中 ", use by Unihan] (Section "Chinese Compounds")
* [http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html DimSum] , a dictionary program that uses CEDICT
* [http://www.timsfreestuff.com/software/chinesedic.php A free online dictionary using the CEDICT database]
* [http://zdt.sourceforge.net ZDT] Another free dictionary program that uses CEDICT
* [http://groups.google.com/group/chinese-dictionaries?hl=en Chinese Dictionaries] Discussion group about Chinese->"foreign language" dictionaries
* [http://ehaton.blogspot.com PABLO] a Chinese-English dictionary based on CC-CEDICT and incorporating many features such as stroke animations, handwriting recognition, multi-radical search, etc.

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