Far East Chinese-English Dictionary Database Help

[Kobo-Daishi]

At one time the chinalanguage.com web site had their CCDICT database available for free download. Their content is essentially the head character entries from the Far East Chinese-English Dictionary (seen on quite a few forumites' shelfies. I also have a copy). So the CCDICT is like the zidian portion of the Far East. All zi's and no ci's.

 

Chinese, as most if not all languages, have at least two or more definitions for each character.

 

I'm trying to bring my Chinese to another level by learning the different definitions for each character.

 

I have a copy of the Far East, but, my eyes are not what they used to be and I don't relish the thought of holding a magnifying glass to read through it.

 

At this thread they have a link to where there's a file with the data.

 

http://www.chinalanguage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2005&sid=b3251d98e314007a1d833177d34ef030&start=30

 

The Perl repository where file located.

 

http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Lingua-ZH-CCDICT-0.05/lib/Lingua/ZH/CCDICT.pm

 

But unfortunately the characters are in Unicode codepoints.

 

I'm not a programmer so know next to nothing about coding.

 

My question is how do you turn the codepoints into characters so that the file is useful to a layman?

 

Kobo.

[flow]

i gave the data a quick and cursory overhaul; you can download it as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/loveencounterflow/ccdict/master/Lingua-ZH-CCDICT-0.05-transformed.txt (repo at https://github.com/loveencounterflow/ccdict). i converted the U+XXXX notations to characters (encoded as UTF-8 ) and also replaced the character references in the glosses. have fun.

[Kobo-Daishi]

@ Flow

 

Thanks. Much appreciated.

 

Kobo.

[Kobo-Daishi]

At one time the chinalanguage.com web site had their CCDICT database available for free download. Their content is essentially the head character entries from the Far East Chinese-English Dictionary (seen on quite a few forumites' shelfies. I also have a copy). So the CCDICT is like the zidian portion of the Far East. All zi's and no ci's.

 

Okay, it's more than just the Far East head character entries. The definition part is mostly.

 

But they've added extra character entries probably derived from Unicode's Unihan with radical and stroke count, and Cantonese pronunciation. And their own Hakka pronunciations from several sources.

 

Now to try to get the information into a format that can be used with StarDict and GoldenDict. 

 

Kobo.