Features

• Supports EDICT and CEDICT style dictionaries (currently EDICT, CEDICT, HanDeDict, CEDICTGR),
• currently supports Japanese, Mandarin Chinese (traditional and simplified), Cantonese and Korean,
• works without a background dictionary (though limited),
• supported romanisations/character readings: Kana, Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, IPA, Jyutping, Cantonese Yale, Hangul,
• modular support for adding further character readings,
• fuzzy search (wildcards), mixing of characters and pronunciation,
• integrated search for headword, pronunciation and translation at the same time,
• search for similar pronunciations,
• Kangxi radical table,
• component (aka multi-radical) search,
• handwriting recognition,
• vocabulary list,
• sensitive towards similar characters, writing variants, infrequent readings,
• small mode (aka mini mode) with clipboard lookup for integration with other software,
• character/word related information, character component tree,
• stroke order and pronunciation as audio,
• dictionary update function.

Dependencies

• Python
• SQLalchemy, SQL library
• Qt4, Cross-Platform GUI and Framework
• PyQt4, Python bindings for Qt
• KDE4, Qt extensions integrating with KDE
• PyKDE4, Python bindings for KDE
• cjklib, Han character library

Recommended

• Tegaki, handwriting recognition engine, or
• Tomoe, handwriting recognition engine
• Kanji stroke order font, stroke orders
• Included in release:
• Commons stroke order project, stroke order images
• SWAC Audio Collections, 8500 pronunciations of Mandarin Chinese words