Chinese-English Dictionary

Approximately 600,000 entries

Optimized for electronic dictionaries

Can be used together with ECD

Overview

CJKI’s Chinese-English Dictionary (CED) covers approximately 600,000 entries of general vocabulary and important technical terms and proper nouns. Compiled in collaboration with a leading Chinese university and based on the world’s most comprehensive dictionaries, CED has undergone extensive proofreading by native Chinese editors. It includes many features, such as Traditional Chinese and the inclusion of both pinyin and zhuyin fuhao as well as explicit tone sandhi.

Chinese-English Dictionary

ChinesePinyinPOSTypeSNEnglish
āIM1Oh; Oho
啊!多美丽的景色!a duō měi lì de jǐng sèE1Oh, what a nice view!
啊!黄河,你是中华民族的摇篮。a huáng hé nǐ shì zhōng huá mín zú de yáo lánE1O! The Huanghe (River), cradle of the Chinese nation.
啊哈ā hāIC1oh; wow
啊哈,你在这儿呀!ā hā nǐ zài zhè er yāE1Oh, so you're here!
啊哈ā hāIC2wow
啊哈,这活儿做得真不错呀!ā hā zhè huó er zuò de zhēn bù cuò yāE1Wow! That's a really good bit of work.
啊哈ā hāIC3Ha-ha
啊哈,你又来捉弄我了。ā hā nǐ yòu lái zhuō nòng wǒ leE1Ha-ha, so you're teasing me again!
啊哈ā hāIC4Aha
啊哈,我又赢了。ā hā wǒ yòu yíng leE1Aha, I've won again!
啊呀ā yāIC1Oh
啊呀,这消息传得真快呀!ā yā zhè xiāo xi chuán de zhēn kuài yāE1How fast the news got around!
啊呀,这事可不好办!ā yā zhè shì kě bu hǎo bànE1Oh, that would really be a hard job!
啊哟ā yōC1Oh; Ow
啊哟,我的钱包丢了!ā yō wǒ de qián bāo diū leE1Oh, no, I've lost my purse!
啊哟,今天的天气太糟糕了!ā yō jīn tiān de tiān qì tài zāo gāo leE1What terrible weather this is!
啊哟,疼死我了!ā yō téng sǐ wǒ leE1Ow, that [it] hurts!
āNM1actinium

Practical Applications

CED can be used in a variety of applications such as:

Machine translation dictionaries

Handheld electronic and print dictionaries

Cross-language information retrieval

Mobile device applications

also developed by our institute, for Android and iOS

Related Resources

ECD

English-Chinese Dictionary

English-Chinese general vocabulary and common proper nouns

JED

Japanese-English Dictionary

Japanese-English general vocabulary and common proper nouns

CLD

Chinese Lexical Database

Monolingual general vocabulary for NLP applications