The EDICT project was started by Jim Breen in 1991 with the aim to provide a complete Japanese to English dictionary. Since that time it has been updated and expanded by many contributors. EDICT is simply a text file; other programs are needed to search and display it. Jim Breen's own on-line dictionary WWWJDIC is a convenient way of accessing the wealth of information contained in EDICT. This project is considered a standard Japanese-English reference on the Internet, and is used by the Unihan Database and several other Japanese-English projects. JMdict is an expanded file, containing French, German, Russian, etc. translation, and using XML with the UTF-8 encoding. EDICT also inspired the CEDICT Chinese dictionary project of Paul Denisowski, started in 1997. The EDICT file currently has over 128,000 entries.
External links
- Jim Breen's EDICT file Homepage
- French-Japanese dictionary, translated from EDICT.
- Japanese-German dictionary, inspired by EDICT, provides the source for German translations.
