I have been working on my Chinese literacy skills and the engineer in me has been increasingly frustrated with the lack of good software to aid these endeavors. So, today, I introduce Pingguo Chinese-English Dictionary, for the Mac OS X, of course. ![]()
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Made for use with OS X’s Dictionary program, Pingguo leverages the public domain Chinese-English dictionary files of CC-CEDICT.
Pingguo Dictionary 1.0.0.3 (Pinyin Edition) Pingguo Dictionary 1.0.0.3 (Zhuyin Edition)
Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.5+
Version History
1.0.0.3 – August 7, 2011
- Fixed crashing under OS X 10.7 (Lion).
- Based on the 2011-08-07 20:56:03 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.
1.0.0.2 – May 3, 2009
- No functional changes.
- Based on the 2010-05-02 21:59:33 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.
1.0.0.1 – June 3, 2009
- No functional changes.
- Based on the 2009-06-03 05:51:07 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.
1.0 – November 10, 2008
- Split into two dictionary files — one for Pinyin and the other for Zhuyin.
- Gives pronunciation in contextual menu dictionary panel.
- Using different fonts for traditional and simplified characters.
- Based on the 2008-11-08 21:00:48 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.
0.6 – July 7, 2008
- Added support for Zhuyin fuhao (bopomofo). The display of the phonetic system can be configured in the dictionary application’s Preferences.
- Based on the 2008-05-25 11:49:13 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.
0.5 – June 18, 2008
- First public release.
- Includes searches based on Chinese characters (traditional and simplified), pinyin (with or within tone marks) and English.
- Based on the 2008-05-25 11:49:13 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.
Copyright © 2008-2011 Alexander Chow. Dictionary contents are distributed as CC-CEDICT by MDBG under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
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