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)
 * , it had 122,444 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/

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 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.