Moedict

“Moedict” is an enhanced version of The Mandarin Chinese Dictionary of the Ministry of Education.

Active

Taiwan

Open source: Yes

It contains 160,000 entries of Mandarin used in Taiwan, 20,000 entries of Taiwanese Hokkien, and 14,000 entries of Taiwanese Hakka for query purposes. It also integrates features such as English, French, and German translations, stroke order, and pronunciation. Based on the spirit of open collaboration, Moedict has spawned iOS, Android, and desktop applications, as well as sub-projects like Amis Moedict and iTaigi, which promote the use of Amis language and Taiwanese Hokkien respectively. Addition- ally, the “Moedictthon,” a series of small-scale hackathons, has been held 24 times. The sources of Moedict’s original data include revised editions of the Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary copyrighted by the Ministry of Education, Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan, Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Hakka, Learning Program for Stroke Order of Chinese Character, Concised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary, as well as CC-CEDict, CFDict, HanDeDict, and dictionaries provided by the General Association of Chinese Culture. Historical script styles are also available by embedding web pages that link to the General Association of Chinese Culture website.