/jyːt ˈdɪkʃənɛɹi/
Look up words from multiple dictionaries in Cantonese or Mandarin, with Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Jyutping, Pinyin, and English input.
Available for macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu.
Jyut Dictionary gives you access to CEDICT, CC-CANTO, words.hk 粵典, the Unihan database, 開放詞典, and Chinese sentences from Tatoeba, all completely offline. Plus, you can download and add more dictionaries to the program. That's over 200,000 entries and 100,000 sentences to search from!
Results appear in a list as you type, so it's faster and easier to find what you're looking for. Plus, your search history is saved if you want to go back to a word you've looked up before.
Jyut Dictionary supports entry with Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Jyutping, Pinyin, and English.
Use the dictionary in English, French, Simplified and Traditional Cantonese, or Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
Prefer to see only Traditional Chinese? Maybe hide Pinyin? Change the colours of the words or disable them altogether? Do that with a plethora of settings options!
The project contains two subdirectories under src: dictionaries, and jyut-dict.
This folder contains several Python3 scripts that convert the various online Cantonese/Written Chinese dictionaries into the dictionary format used by Jyut Dictionary. However, for copyright reasons, data for these sources may not be included in this repository. Selected sources include:
- CC-CEDICT and CC-CEDICT-compatible dictionaries (in .u8 and .xml format), such as:
- ABC Chinese-English Dictionary
- ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary
- CUHK 現代標準漢語與粵語對照資料庫
- CantoDict
- Cross-Straits Language Database (兩岸詞典)
- 廣州話正音字典
- HSK 3.0 (汉语水平考试 3.0)
- Kaifangcidian 粵語詞典 - 開放詞典
- MoEDict (重編國語辭典修訂本)
- Tatoeba
- Unihan Database
- Wikipedia Article Titles
- Wiktionary - English
- words.hk 粵典
This folder contains the source code for the program, and a Qt Creator project file. Files are divided into several subdirectories:
components: UI components, such as the list view or search bar.dialogs: dialogs, such as the "update available" notification dialog.logic: definitions for search and entry classes, as well as other backend logic.platform: platform-specific files, such asInfo.plistfor the macOS application bundle.resources: databases, icons, and images.windows: UI windows of the program, such as the main window.
This project requires Qt 5.15.
Before building the application, you must provide a dictionary database. Download one from the website, or build the dictionary database using parse-set.py (for CEDICT + CC-CANTO) or parse-individual.py (for CFDICT/HanDeDict).
Place the database, named dict.db, in src/jyut-dict/resources/db/
- Install Craft.
- Install various dependencies using Craft:
craft libs/qt/qtmultimedia
craft libs/qt/qtspeech
craft karchive
- Set up Qt Creator with a kit from Craft, following instructions here.
- Open CMakeLists.txt in Qt Creator, and define
CMAKE_CXX_FLAGSas-DPORTABLE -DDEBUGin the CMake configuration if you would like to isolate your debug build from any system files. - Compile and run!
This guide assumes you have already installed Qt 5.15.2 using the online installer to ~/Qt, with the Qt Multimedia and Qt Speech plugins.
- Clone KArchive and check out
tags/v5.114.0. This is the last version of KArchive that is compatible with Qt 5.
git clone https://github.com/KDE/karchive.git
cd karchive
git checkout tags/v5.114.0
- Build according to KArchive instructions:
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/Qt/5.15.2/gcc_64
make
sudo make install
- Open CMakeLists.txt in Qt Creator, and define
CMAKE_CXX_FLAGSas-DPORTABLE -DDEBUGin the CMake configuration if you would like to isolate your debug build from any system files. - Compile and run!
See the READMEs for each platform under src/jyut-dict/platform/<platform> for instructions on packaging the built executable.
See the Github issues and projects for more information!