English → Chinese
English to Chinese, built by pivoting Princeton WordNet 3.0 through the Chinese Open Wordnet and enriching with the English Wiktionary. Includes an inflection index.
Download
en-zh.zip 15.2 MB · StarDict · CC-BY-SA-4.0
Install on your e-reader
Unzip and copy the folder onto your device so that you end up with:
koreader/data/dict/en-zh/en-zh.ifo
Restart KOReader. This dictionary includes an inflection index, so looking a word up exactly as it appears in a book works.
Coverage
How many of the most common words in the source language this dictionary can actually resolve, counting words reached through the inflection index.
| Frequency band | Found | As headword | Via inflection | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| top 1,000 | 976 | 885 | 91 | 97.6% |
| top 5,000 | 4,842 | 4,072 | 770 | 96.84% |
| top 10,000 | 9,400 | 7,535 | 1,865 | 94% |
| top 50,000 | 38,380 | 27,343 | 11,037 | 76.76% |
Measured against OpenSubtitles 2018 English top 50k (hermitdave/FrequencyWords).
What is in an entry
| Entries with a real translation | 95,925 (56.11%) |
| Entries with only a definition, no translation | 75,028 |
| Entries with a usage example | 34,201 (20.01%) |
| Entries with inflected forms | 165,510 (96.82%) |
| Entries with pronunciation | 25,457 |
| Senses | 264,752 |
| Mean definition length | 66 characters |
| Mean translations per entry | 1.42 |
An entry counted as “definition only” is one where the source wordnet knows the concept but has no word for it in the target language. These are shipped because a definition still helps a reader, and counted separately because calling them translations would be dishonest.
Sources and licence
| Source | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|
omw-cmn | WordNet-3.0 | Chinese Open Wordnet, via Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.4 |
pwn30 | WordNet-3.0 | Princeton University WordNet 3.0 |
wikt-en-cmn | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (wiktextract) |
Bundled under CC-BY-SA-4.0, the least restrictive licence that covers every source above. Each source’s own terms are reproduced in the ATTRIBUTION file inside the download.