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{{Short description|Chinese–English dictionary}}
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 language|Chinese]] to [[English language|English]] dictionary with pronunciation in [[pinyin]] for the Chinese characters.
== Content ==
CEDICT is a [[text file]]; other programs (or simply [[Microsoft Notepad|Notepad]] or [[egrep]] or equivalent) are needed to search and display it. This project is used by several other Chinese-English projects.  The [[Han unification|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unicode.org/charts/unihan.html|title=Unihan Database Lookup|website=unicode.org}}</ref>
Features:
* [[Traditional Chinese]] and [[Simplified Chinese]]
* Pinyin (several pronunciations)
* American English (several)
* {{As of|2024|1|22}}, it had 122,444 entries in [[UTF-8]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=cc-cedict|title=MDBG English to Chinese dictionary|website=www.mdbg.net}}</ref>
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 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Event
|-
| 1991
| [[EDICT]] [[Japanese language|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 [http://cc-cedict.org/ CC-CEDICT] which continues the CEDICT project with a new license: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License], allowing more projects to use it.<ref>The [https://github.com/zdict/dictionaries/blob/master/stardict-cedict-big5-2.4.2/LICENSE.CEDICT original CEDICT license] was for non-commercial use only, and did not allow entries to be added without permission.</ref> 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:
* [[:de:HanDeDict|HanDeDict]] (~156,000 Chinese entries)
* [[:en:CFDICT|CFDICT]] (~44,000 entries) for French
* Some older CEDICT data is also found in the [[Adsotrans]] dictionary.
* February 2012: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130501132107/http://cc-chedicc.wikispaces.com/ 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cantonese.org/download.html|title=CC-Canto - A Cantonese dictionary for everyone|website=cantonese.org}}</ref>
* '''Cantonese CEDICT''' features [[Cantonese language]] readings in [[Yale romanization of Cantonese|Yale transcription]] and has Cantonese-specific words, many of which were taken from "A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang"<ref>http://writecantonese8.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/cantonese-cedict-project/ "Later, I was guided to merge data from Cantonese [[StarDict|Stardict]], which is an electronic version of “A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang”, into Cantonese CEDICT"</ref> in possible [[copyright infringement]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stardict.sourceforge.net/|accessdate=18 November 2011|title=StarDict|publisher=Stardict.sourceforge.net}}</ref>
==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://cc-cedict.org/ CC-CEDICT Editor] Project home page
* [http://cc-cedict.org/wiki/format:format more information on the formatting of CC-CEDICT]
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