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 text file; other programs (or simply Notepad or 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.
Features:
- Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
- Pinyin (several pronunciations)
- American English (several)
- As of 16 July 2025[update], it had 123,524 entries 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/
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. Additionally a work flow 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 (~149,000 Chinese entries) for German
- CFDICT (~60,000 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)
- CHDICT (~19,000 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" in possible copyright infringement.
- CC-CIDICT (over 124,000 entries) is a free, open-source Chinese–Indonesian dictionary. It is a direct derivative of the CC-CEDICT project. The project is community-managed and released under a Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.
References
- ↑ Ken Lunde (1999). CJKV information processing. O'Reilly. ISBN 978-1-56592-224-2.
- ↑ Mottaz Jiang, Claire-Lise. "Hypertext Interfaces for Chinese Character and Word Dictionaries" (PDF).
- ↑ "Chinese Retrieval System Using Hangeul Pronunciation of Chinese Language - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
- ↑ Peng, Gang; Minett, James W.; Wang, William S.-Y. (2008-06-20). "The networks of syllables and characters in Chinese". Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. 15 (3): 243–255. doi:10.1080/09296170802159488. ISSN 0929-6174.
- ↑ Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (6th : 2000 : Seattle, Wash ) (2000). Proceedings of the conferences and proceedings of the ANLP-NAACL 2000 student research workshop : 6th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference [and] 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics : April 29 - May 4, Seattle, Washington, USA. Internet Archive. [New Brunswick, N.J.] : Association for Computational Linguistics ; San Francisco : Distributed by Morgan Kaufman Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55860-704-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Unihan Database Lookup". unicode.org.
- ↑ "CC-CEDICT download - MDBG Chinese Dictionary". www.mdbg.net. Archived from the original on 16 July 2025.
- ↑ The original CEDICT license was for non-commercial use only, and did not allow entries to be added without permission.
- ↑ "HanDeDict @ Zydeo Wörterbuch Chinesisch-Deutsch". handedict.zydeo.net. Archived from the original on 18 July 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ "Dictionnaire chinois français / 汉法词典 — Chine Informations". chine.in. Archived from the original on 16 July 2025. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
- ↑ "CHDICT Chinese ⇔ Hungarian dictionary and corpus". chdict.zydeo.net. Archived from the original on 29 July 2025. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
- ↑ "CC-Canto - A Cantonese dictionary for everyone". cantonese.org.
- ↑ "Cantonese CEDICT Project". 廣府話小研究Cantonese Resources. 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
- ↑ "StarDict". Stardict.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
- ↑ "Kamus Mandarin Indonesia - CC-CIDICT". cidict.org. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
External links
- CC-CEDICT Editor Project home page
- more information on the formatting of CC-CEDICT
