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C+DICT: Open Chinese Dictionary

Look up Chinese

in nine languages.

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124,769 entries.

Eight more languages.

Free · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Updated every year

Same file.
Same lines.
Eight more languages.

CC-CEDICT is the open Chinese–English dictionary behind many Chinese learning apps and sites. C+DICT gives every one of its definitions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Thai.

Until now, a developer had two options: translate CC-CEDICT, or license a paid dictionary. C+DICT is the third option, free and open. Learners get explanations in their own language. Developers get the file format they already read. An app that reads CC-CEDICT can speak eight more languages the same day.

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Try a word

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Specifications

Entries
124,769

In every file. The same count as CC-CEDICT.

Languages
8

Plus the English of CC-CEDICT itself.

Format
.u8

CC-CEDICT, version 2. UTF-8 text, one entry per line.

Alignment
1:1

Line N is the same word in every file.

License
BY-SA

Creative Commons 4.0, as CC-CEDICT. Commercial use is allowed. Credit CC-CEDICT and C+DICT. Share changes under the same license.

Releases
1/yr

Each release follows a year of CC-CEDICT edits.

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The languages

All eight files, 91 MB unpacked. Keep the attribution, and share changes under the same license.

Download all (.tar.xz, 15.9 MB) git clone https://github.com/R8VEN-LLC/CC-CPLUSDICT
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In use

FIG 4.1 · Português
Kandedong HSK Map in Portuguese: 18 HSK 1 words marked as known, and the word 学习 open with its meaning, aprender; estudar

HSK Map

All 10,942 words of HSK 3.0 on one map, each with its meaning in the learner's language.

Open HSK Map
FIG 4.2 · Español
Kandedong Deck Generator in Spanish: a Chinese text turned into 43 flashcards, each with its Spanish meaning

Deck Generator

Paste a Chinese text and get a deck of flashcards. The back of each card is in the learner's language.

Open Deck Generator
FIG 4.3 · Français
Kandedong Sheets in French: a worksheet for 学习, 朋友 and 中文, and a search for 书 with French meanings

Sheets

Stroke practice on paper. The learner finds each word by its meaning (in their own language) and prints the sheet.

Open Sheets

These three run on C+DICT, and so do other Kandedong Miniapps: free Chinese tools in nine languages, with no account to make. See all the apps

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Method

Strengths

  • All 124,769 entries, with every sense of each one. Long entries keep their full length; none is cut down to a one-word gloss.
  • The characters, the pinyin, the classifiers and the cross-references are copied from CC-CEDICT as they are.
  • Every entry of every file is checked for its format, its count, cut-off text and leftover English. Korean had a second, full review.
  • Code that reads CC-CEDICT reads C+DICT, with no changes.

Keep in mind

  • The definitions are machine translations.
  • The translations start from the English. 橘子 is "tangerine" in CC-CEDICT, so the Japanese file says タンジェリン, where many speakers would say みかん.
  • The word list is CC-CEDICT's, as of the last release. A word missing there is missing here.
  • It is a study tool. Legal or medical work needs a second source.
Read the quality checks

Releases

  1. 2026v1.0.0 · first release
  2. 2027Next · a year of CC-CEDICT edits, plus the corrections from the community
  3. 2028And every year after
Report a wrong sense

Free today.
Better every year.

Download git clone https://github.com/R8VEN-LLC/CC-CPLUSDICT