girzel / cc-cedict.el

An Emacs interface for CC-CEDICT

An Emacs interface for CC-CEDICT

CC-CEDICT is a public-domain Chinese-English dictionary. cc-cedict.el is an Emacs interface for it.

Setup

You need to manually download CC-CEDICT dictionary from https://cc-cedict.org/wiki/, extract the tarball then set cc-cedict-file. Something like the following:

$ wget https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/export/cedict/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt.gz
$ gunzip cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt.gz

(setq cc-cedict-file "/path/to/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt")

Usage

(cc-cedict "姊妹")
;; =>
#s(cc-cedict-entry "姊妹" "姊妹" "zi3 mei4" ("(older and younger) sisters" "sister (school, city etc)"))

Dependencies

• Emacs 26.1 or higher