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<h2 id="content">Content</h2> <p>CEDICT is a <a href="/facts/Text_file/zYW4JmES">text file</a>; other programs (or simply <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Notepad/TCDv4wvX">Notepad</a> or <a href="/facts/Egrep/PdGQeFfD">egrep</a> or equivalent) are needed to search and display it. This project is used by several other Chinese-English projects. The <a href="/facts/Han_unification/P4F7bEfE">Unihan Database</a> 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.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p><p>Features: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese/bBFLkuz7">Traditional Chinese</a> and <a href="/facts/Simplified_Chinese/UcAD6xXs">Simplified Chinese</a></li> <li>Pinyin (several pronunciations)</li> <li>American English (several)</li> <li>As of 22 January 2024<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CEDICT&action=edit">[update]</a>, it had 122,444 entries in <a href="/facts/UTF-8/xlaVHSyf">UTF-8</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul> <p>The basic format of a CEDICT entry is: </p> Traditional Simplified [pin1 yin1] /American English equivalent 1/equivalent 2/ 漢字 汉字 [han4 zi4] /Chinese character/CL:個|个/ <p>Example of a simple egrep search: </p> $ 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/ <h2 id="history">History</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th>Year</th><th>Event</th></tr><tr><td>1991</td><td><a href="/facts/EDICT/lJj56022">EDICT</a> <a href="/facts/Japanese_language/EEv485a5">Japanese</a> dictionary project was started by <a href="/facts/Jim_Breen/al8G0a4N">Jim Breen</a>.</td></tr><tr><td>1997</td><td>CEDICT project started by Paul Denisowski, on the model of EDICT. Continued by Erik Peterson.</td></tr><tr><td>2007</td><td>MDBG started a new project called <a href="http://cc-cedict.org/">CC-CEDICT</a> which continues the CEDICT project with a new license: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License</a>, allowing more projects to use it.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Additionally a work flow <a href="http://cc-cedict.org/editor/">[1]</a> has been set up to streamline the process of submitting, reviewing and processing new entries.</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="related-projects">Related projects</h2> <p>CEDICT has shown the way to some other projects: </p> <ul><li>HanDeDict (~156,000 Chinese entries)</li> <li>CFDICT (~44,000 entries) for French</li> <li>Some older CEDICT data is also found in the Adsotrans dictionary.</li> <li>February 2012: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501132107/http://cc-chedicc.wikispaces.com/">ChE-DICC</a>, the Spanish-Chinese free dictionary starts (currently beta)</li> <li>May 2017: CHDICT (11,000 entries) for Hungarian</li> <li>CC-Canto is <a href="/facts/Pleco_Software/531yBkYa">Pleco Software</a>'s addition of <a href="/facts/Cantonese_language/y5UhgScP">Cantonese language</a> readings in <a href="/facts/Jyutping/r9GnpjYB">Jyutping</a> transcription to CC-CEDICT<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>Cantonese CEDICT features <a href="/facts/Cantonese_language/y5UhgScP">Cantonese language</a> readings in <a href="/facts/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese/rajusu3X">Yale transcription</a> and has Cantonese-specific words, many of which were taken from "A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> in possible <a href="/facts/Copyright_infringement/33JDsS5S">copyright infringement</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://cc-cedict.org/">CC-CEDICT Editor</a> Project home page</li> <li><a href="http://cc-cedict.org/wiki/format:format">more information on the formatting of CC-CEDICT</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Unihan Database Lookup". unicode.org. <a href="http://unicode.org/charts/unihan.html" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/charts/unihan.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"MDBG English to Chinese dictionary". www.mdbg.net. <a href="https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=cc-cedict" target="_blank">https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=cc-cedict</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>The original CEDICT license was for non-commercial use only, and did not allow entries to be added without permission. <a href="https://github.com/zdict/dictionaries/blob/master/stardict-cedict-big5-2.4.2/LICENSE.CEDICT" target="_blank">https://github.com/zdict/dictionaries/blob/master/stardict-cedict-big5-2.4.2/LICENSE.CEDICT</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"CC-Canto - A Cantonese dictionary for everyone". cantonese.org. <a href="https://cantonese.org/download.html" target="_blank">https://cantonese.org/download.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>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" <a href="http://writecantonese8.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/cantonese-cedict-project/" target="_blank">http://writecantonese8.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/cantonese-cedict-project/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"StarDict". Stardict.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 18 November 2011. <a href="http://stardict.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://stardict.sourceforge.net/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>