What are the best open-sourced English -> Chinese Dictionary?

[bhok1386]

The idea may sound a bit strange, but I think I would like to look up some English words in Chinese and see how they are defined or described. Open-source dictionary is what I am looking for exactly, if any.

[edelweis]

Is there more than one?

you can download CCEDICT from this page

or you can consult it directly online on the http://www.mdbg.net website

 

Edit: ah sorry... you wanted English->Chinese, but CCEDICT is Chinese->English...

[Shelley]

Pleco allows you to input an English word and get a chinese translation. Have a look http://www.pleco.com/

It is something I wouldn't be without as chinese language student.

[Demonic_Duck]

Pleco allows you to input an English word and get a chinese translation. Have a look http://www.pleco.com/

It is something I wouldn't be without as chinese language student.

 

Pleco is neither a dictionary, nor open source, nor exclusively English-Chinese. It's a proprietary piece of software which can run many dictionaries. Some of these are themselves proprietary and some are open source. The language pairs (as far as I know) are Chinese-English, English-Chinese, Chinese-Chinese, Chinese-French, Chinese-German, Cantonese-English, Classical Chinese-Modern Chinese, and Cantonese-Mandarin.

 

Unfortunately, none of the Pleco dictionaries is both open source and E-C. CC-CEDICT is C-E.

 

I actually don't know of any E-C dictionaries in existance that are open source. Would be interested to know if there are any.

[mikelove]

We actually do have one open-source E-C dictionary - LDC - though it's really little more than a full-text index of CEDICT. Was formerly available at http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/Chinese/LDC_ch.htm, that link is no longer active but you can still get to it through archive.org.

 

We're thinking of doing something free for English-Chinese ourselves, but open-source versus closed-source for us is a challenging question even when we plan to make something available for free, mainly because it's a huge boost to a new dictionary to be able to incorporate licensed content from an existing one. Our free PLC Chinese-English dictionary isn't open-source because it's based on 《汉英词典》 from FLTRP and we save ourselves a tremendous amount of effort / get a much higher quality product having that to build on; our new CC-Canto Cantonese-English dictionary is open-source because there isn't really that much commercial Cantonese-English data out there and so a free Cantonese-English title would gain little by incorporating licensed content.

[Demonic_Duck]

We actually do have one open-source E-C dictionary - LDC - though it's really little more than a full-text index of CEDICT.

 

Hmm. Disregard what I said, then.

[dtcamero]

We actually do have one open-source E-C dictionary - LDC - though it's really little more than a full-text index of CEDICT. Was formerly available at http://projects.ldc....nese/LDC_ch.htm, that link is no longer active but you can still get to it through archive.org.

 

sorry can you show me on archive.org where to get that E-C dictionary? and how do i install it in pleco then?

[edelweis]

Well if it's just an index of CEDICT, I don't see the point of installing it in pleco.

Surely if you enter an English word in pleco, you can find the related entries in CEDICT?

The definitions won't be in Chinese, since the CEDICT definitions are in English.

 

An archive.org link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130907032401/http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/Chinese/LDC_ch.htm

[pross]

https://zh.wiktionary.org/

 

Both E->C and C->C.