CC-CEDICT in Python

To use the CC-CEDICT Chinese to English dictionary in Python.

Installation

pip install pycccedict

Example

1. Get an entry

from pycccedict.cccedict import CcCedict

cccedict = CcCedict()
cccedict.get_entry('猫')

{
    "traditional": "貓",
    "simplified": "猫",
    "pinyin": "mao1",
    "definitions": [
        "cat",
        "CL:隻|只[zhi1]",
        "(dialect) to hide oneself",
        "(coll.) modem"
    ]
}

API

get_entry

>>> cccedict.get_entry('猫')
{
    "traditional": "貓",
    "simplified": "猫",
    "pinyin": "mao1",
    "definitions": [
        "cat",
        "CL:隻|只[zhi1]",
        "(dialect) to hide oneself",
        "(coll.) modem"
    ]
}

get_entries

>>> cccedict.get_entries()[:2]
[{'traditional': '%', 'simplified': '%', 'pinyin': 'pa1', 'definitions': ['percent (Tw)']}, {'traditional': '2019冠狀病毒病', 'simplified': '2019冠状病毒病', 'pinyin': 'er4 ling2 yi1 jiu3 guan1 zhuang4 bing4 du2 bing4', 'definitions': ['COVID-19, the coronavirus disease identified in 2019']}]

get_traditional

>>> cccedict.get_traditional('猫')
'貓'

get_simplified

>>> cccedict.get_simplified('貓')
'猫'

get_pinyin

>>> cccedict.get_pinyin('猫')
'mao1'

get_definitions

>>> cccedict.get_definitions('猫')
['cat', 'CL:隻|只[zhi1]', '(dialect) to hide oneself', '(coll.) modem']