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自由詞典

An attempt to make a dictionary that doesn't ratify the vocabulary or pronounciations of the People's Republic of China, but instead uses vocabulary often found in free areas.

Specifically, this dictionary will have the followding main differeces/goals compared to CC-CEDICT:

  • Use the pronounciation from the Republic of China (Taiwan) where applicable.
  • Incorporate any slang or neologisms used by the international community that isn't already in CC-CEDICT (such as terms used by BBC, ABC or similar communities). This will include Cantonese or Japanese slang or loanwords.
  • Edit any major definitions, if neessary (in practice, this has not been necessary as CC-CEDIT has done an amazing job at keeping the language politically neutral. Of course, a dictionary is big, so if something pops up in the future, it will be dealt with accordingly. Most changes will be in new words added, old ones mostly just change to switch the focus on the ROC usage of the word as default, while having the PRC usage as a sidenote. For a list of changes just check the commit history.

Please note that this project is not endorsed by any organization or any peoples. I am doing this for myself mostly, out of personal interest as I believe that other dictionaries are biased towards PRC style Chinese. This is my attempt to balance the scales. If you are not interested in this, feel free to use CC-CEDICT (the upstream), Pleco, Hanping or search on Baidu itself. Or use one of the bazillion mainland-China-centric dictionaries that exist.

Style guide / common abreviations

  • As CC-CEDICT started it, we will keep things lowercase by default
  • PRC pr. is used to indicated the pronounciation used in the area controlled by the People's Republic of China. Meanwhile Tw. indicates something is relating to Taiwan.
  • (slang) indicates it's slang while (neologism) indicates it's a newly created word
  • (from XXX) indicates the source language a term comes from. This is usually appended to words that have their roots in Cantonese, Japanese or even Taiwanese.

License

This project, due to it's use of CC-CEDICT, is under the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License". To quote the CC-CEDICT website: "It more or less means that you are allowed to use this data for both non-commercial and commercial purposes provided that you: mention where you got the data from (attribution) and that in case you improve / add to the data you will share these changes under the same license (share alike)."