CC-CEDICT download

What is CC-CEDICT?

The word dictionary of this website is based on CC-CEDICT. CC-CEDICT is a continuation of the CEDICT project started by Paul Denisowski in 1997 with the aim to provide a complete downloadable Chinese to English dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters. This website allows you to easily add new entries or correct existing entries in CC-CEDICT. Submitted entries will be checked and processed frequently and released for download in CEDICT format on this page.

The format of CC-CEDICT is described on the CC-CEDICT Wiki.

Download CC-CEDICT

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (click the link for detailed information)

Latest release: 2024-10-04 16:48:01 GMT
Number of entries: 122613
cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.zip - CC-CEDICT in UTF-8, with both traditional and simplified Chinese (ZIP archive format)
cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt.gz - CC-CEDICT in UTF-8, with both traditional and simplified Chinese (GZip format)

Please note: this download only contains a CC-CEDICT database file, it does not contain a dictionary program. You will need a CEDICT compatible application to open this file.

Using CC-CEDICT

CC-CEDICT is used by many programs, among which:

• MDBG Chinese Reader - Chinese dictionary and mouse hover translation (Windows application)
• MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary for macOS (Mac application)
• Pleco - Chinese-English dictionary APP, includes CC-CEDICT (iOS & Android)
• Hanping Chinese Dictionary (Android)
• KTdict C-E - Chinese-English Dictionary (iOS)

Software development:

• A Python parser for the CC-CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary
• A PHP parser for the CC-CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary

Related projects:

• HanDeDict - Chinese German dictionary
• CFDICT - Chinese French dictionary
• CHDICT - Chinese-Hungarian open-source dictionary