CEDICT explained

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.[1]

Features:

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

YearEvent
1991EDICT Japanese dictionary project was started by Jim Breen.
1997CEDICT project started by Paul Denisowski, on the model of EDICT. Continued by Erik Peterson.
2007MDBG 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 http://cc-cedict.org/editor/ 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:

References

  1. Web site: Unihan Database Lookup. unicode.org.
  2. Web site: 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. Web site: CC-Canto - A Cantonese dictionary for everyone. cantonese.org.
  5. 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"
  6. Web site: StarDict. 18 November 2011. Stardict.sourceforge.net.

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