Open-source dictionary with more features

[codemarine]

Does anybody know of an open-source dictionary that include breakdowns of characters the way that MDBG lets you chop up its characters into the component parts? I want to write a dictionary that utilizes this information, but I can't find a good source.

[ironfrost]

There's something called kradfile that has this for Japanese: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kradinf.html . Obviously there are a lot of Chinese characters that aren't included, but it might be useful to get you started if you can't find anything in Chinese.

[jbradfor]

Do you know what database MDBG uses? Is that open-source?

[Hofmann]

CEDICT.

[codemarine]

As far as I can tell, the only open source part of MDBG is CEDICT, which doesn't have the information I'm looking for.

[jbradfor]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant "Do you know what dictionary MDBG uses for the character decomposition/breakdown?" Most of what MDBG uses is open-source, so that might be as well.

[The version of CEDICT you can download from MDBG's site does not include that information.]

[cababunga]

It uses this:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Chinese_characters_decomposition

I think it was mentioned somewhere on MDBG's site, but I can't fing that place right now.

Edit:

I think a better tool based on same data is implemented here:

http://tatoeba.org/eng/tools/search_hanzi_kanji

[Baudelaire]

Oh someone found it, actually I've made this tool for myself a year ago for my chinese learning, if other people use it I can think of improving it (a guy send me an other opensource decomposition file which can complete the current one I have), so if you see any missing feature, just tell me (btw I'm doing a tatoeba like dictionnary website, so maybe it will be more suitable with word definitions etc. ? than the current version who only give raw information)