CEDICT
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The CEDICT project was started by Paul Denisowski in 1997 with the aim to provide a complete Chinese to English dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters.
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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[1]. 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] /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)
- English (several)
As of November 2007, it has 55.618 Chinese entries[2].
[edit] 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. |
| 1999 | CEDICT ownership transferred to Erik Peterson of http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html. |
| 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. |
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CEDICT has shown the way to some other projects, such HanDeDict (95.000 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.
[edit] External links
- MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary uses CEDICT, supports adding / editing entries and offers recent CEDICT downloads.
- more information on the formatting of CEDICT
- more information on the improving CEDICT
- Example of CEDICT data for the han character " 中 ", use by Unihan (Section "Chinese Compounds")
- nciku a Chinese-English dictionary with features such as stroke animations, handwriting recognition, multi-radical search, etc.
- DimSum, a dictionary program that uses CEDICT
- A free online dictionary using the CEDICT database
- ZDT Another free dictionary program that uses CEDICT
- Chinese Dictionaries Discussion group about Chinese->"foreign language" dictionaries
- PABLO a Chinese-English dictionary based on CEDICT and incorporating many features such as stroke animations, handwriting recognition, multi-radical search, etc.
