KOReader Dicts

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Korean English

Korean to English, built from the Korean section of the English Wiktionary and the Korean edition's own translation tables. Includes an inflection index.

37,337
entries
341,382
inflected forms
75.59%
with a translation
44.5%
top-10k coverage

Download

ko-en.zip 3.4 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/ko-en/ko-en.ifo

Restart KOReader. This dictionary includes an inflection index, so looking a word up exactly as it appears in a book works.

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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 bandFoundAs headwordVia inflectionCoverage
top 1,000671411260
67.1%
top 5,0002,4861,2511,235
49.72%
top 10,0004,4502,1062,344
44.5%
top 50,00015,3016,2189,083
30.6%

Measured against OpenSubtitles 2018 Korean top 50k (hermitdave/FrequencyWords).

What is in an entry

Entries with a real translation28,224 (75.59%)
Entries with only a definition, no translation9,113
Entries with a usage example5,278 (14.14%)
Entries with inflected forms22,088 (59.16%)
Entries with pronunciation34,718
Senses60,967
Mean definition length28.1 characters
Mean translations per entry1.69

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

SourceLicenceCredit
wikt-ko-defCC-BY-SA-4.0Korean Wiktionary via kaikki.org (wiktextract)
wikt-ko-enCC-BY-SA-4.0English Wiktionary (Korean entries) via kaikki.org (wiktextract)
wikt-ko-to-enCC-BY-SA-4.0Korean 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.