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I'm planing on developing a webapp that will use a novel way to help people to learn chinese characters and remember their meaning.

Since I don't want/can't spend years translating all chinese characters by hand I wonder wether there is a (favorably open source) database (of any form) providing this, i.e. chinese character <-> english translation.

Any ideas / comments wellcome.

Thank you!

tike
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Yes there is - have a look at Cedict - http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=cedict

laurent
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  • This is allmost everthing I want. However there are only complete words in this database, do you probably know of one that simply lists chinese characters one by one? – tike Jan 14 '13 at 08:52
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    @flexy, you could simply loop through the dictionary and extract the entries that have only one simplified/traditional character. – laurent Jan 14 '13 at 08:57
  • sounds reasonable, but I doubt, that this would yield every character in simplified chinese, would it? I considered extracting them from the unicode character set, would you consider this a resonable approach? – tike Jan 14 '13 at 10:40
  • @flexy, it will almost definitely yield every characters in simplified Chinese. The ones you might miss are some very rare/ancient/never used traditional characters. I've used the Cedict database for a Chinese dictionary application and it found it to be extremely detailed, it's rare to find anything missing from it :) – laurent Jan 14 '13 at 10:44
  • @this.lau_ is there one for Spanish that is similar to cedict? – user3871 Jul 05 '17 at 04:23