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 Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally writte ...

for the Chinese characters.

Content

CEDICT is a

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; other programs (or simply Notepad or

egrep grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the ed command ''g/re/p'' (''globally search for a regular expression and print matching lines''), which has the sam ...

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. Features: *

Traditional Chinese A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays ...

and

Simplified Chinese Simplification, Simplify, or Simplified may refer to: Mathematics Simplification is the process of replacing a mathematical expression by an equivalent one, that is simpler (usually shorter), for example * Simplification of algebraic expressions, ...

* Pinyin (several pronunciations) * American English (several) * , it had 119,494 entries in

UTF-8 UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from ''Unicode'' (or ''Universal Coded Character Set'') ''Transformation Format 8-bit''. UTF-8 is capable of ...

. The basic format of a CEDICT entry is: Traditional Simplified in1 yin1/American English equivalent 1/equivalent 2/ 漢字汉字 an4 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 ou3 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 Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

readings in

Jyutping Jyutping is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), an academic group, in 1993. Its formal name is the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. The LSHK advocates fo ...

transcription to CC-CEDICT * Cantonese CEDICT features

readings in Yale transcription and has Cantonese-specific words, many of which were taken from "A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang" in possible

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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 o
Paul Denisowski
the founder of CEDICT

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 {{Dictionaries of Chinese Chinese dictionaries Translation dictionaries