The CFDICT project is the project to provide a Chinese ⇒ French free dictionary, in part by translating the Chinese-English CEDICT.

As of May 2007, this is started and with near 1.000 entries.

• Main Contributor : Hugo LOPEZ , French student in Chinese, able to make about 2.000 Chinese ⇒ French translations.
• Strategy (big points) :
  1. Use the same format than HanDeDict ;
  2. Make about 6.000 Chinese-English ⇒ French translations ;
  3. Build a French page to contribute online, on the style of HanDeDict (will need help and host in the first stages). The English way may also be interesting ;
  4. Find better contributers to continue the work to 30.000 entries (French teachers and sinologues across France, and Taiwanese-Chinese teachers speaking French) ;
  5. [ One day : Merge the English CEDICT, the French CFDICT and all the CEDICT translations ].

I [Hugo] will start the work as soon as the first step will be stable.

As much as possible, most of my decisions have and will follow those of HanDeDict (e.g., fields of application). I also believe that common conventions, website's styles, fields, … will be benefic to all of our projects. I encourage to follow HanDeDict choices and systems.

Links :

• cedictu8.zip - CEDICT in UTF-8, with both traditional and simplified Chinese (ZIP archive format)
• cedict_ts.u8.gz - CEDICT in UTF-8, with both traditional and simplified Chinese (GZip format)

See also :

• HanDeDict - article about the Chinese⇔Deutsch free Dictionary.
• CHDICT - Chinese⇒Hungarian free dictionary in progress.
• Summary of the Current Projects - article about all the Free Chinese Dictionaries, their collaborations, their standardisation, format, etc.
• Cedict_project_and_taipei_s_wikimania - as I will probably be there.