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

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.^[1]

Features:

Simplified Chinese

Pinyin (several pronunciations)

American English (several)

As of 22 January 2024 [update], it had 122,444 entries in UTF-8.^[2]

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

Year	Event
1991	EDICT Japanese dictionary project was started by Jim Breen .
1997	CEDICT project started by Paul Denisowski, on the model of EDICT. Continued by Erik Peterson.
2007	MDBG started a new project called CC-CEDICT which continues the CEDICT project with a new license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License, allowing more projects to use it.^[3] Additionally a work flow [1] has been set up to streamline the process of submitting, reviewing and processing new entries.

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
Cantonese language readings in Jyutping transcription to CC-CEDICT^[4]

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"^[5] in possible copyright infringement.^[6]

References

^ "Unihan Database Lookup". unicode.org.
^ "MDBG English to Chinese dictionary". www.mdbg.net.
^ The original CEDICT license was for non-commercial use only, and did not allow entries to be added without permission.
^ "CC-Canto - A Cantonese dictionary for everyone". cantonese.org.
^ http://writecantonese8.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/cantonese-cedict-project/ "Later, I was guided to merge data from Cantonese Stardict, which is an electronic version of “A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang”, into Cantonese CEDICT"
^ "StarDict". Stardict.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 18 November 2011.

External links

CC-CEDICT Editor Project home page
more information on the formatting of CC-CEDICT

[1] "Unihan Database Lookup". unicode.org.

[2] "MDBG English to Chinese dictionary". www.mdbg.net.

[3] The original CEDICT license was for non-commercial use only, and did not allow entries to be added without permission.

[4] "CC-Canto - A Cantonese dictionary for everyone". cantonese.org.

[5] ttp://writecantonese8.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/cantonese-cedict-project/ "Later, I was guided to merge data from Cantonese Stardict, which is an electronic version of “A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang”, into Cantonese CEDICT"

[6] "StarDict". Stardict.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 18 November 2011.

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