iCED Chinese Dictionary - ABC Edition
By Murage Inc.
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Description
iCED for iPhone and iPod touch presents a unique way to use a Chinese dictionary. After you've found the entry you were searching for, iCED will continue to search for compound or component entries to complement your search. Component entry dissection allows you to quickly understand the meaning of components in longer words or phrases. For example, if you look up 中华人民共和国, iCED will also look up 中华 and 人民共和国. You can then select the latter to break it up into 人民 and 共和国. When you get to single characters, iCED will look up compound entries starting with that character.
[NOTE: Due to the large size of this app, we recommend that you download it with iTunes on your desktop and then sync it to your device.]
FEATURES:
• Includes the ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary pre-activated. (The ABC English-Chinese Dictionary is available as an additional in-app purchase).
• Multiple dictionaries included: ABC CE, CC-CEDICT, CDICT5, Unihan.
• Integrated search across all dictionaries using English words, Chinese characters (using the Chinese hand recognition built into the iPhone OS), Hanyu Pinyin (with or without tone numbers) and radical index.
• Search for the occurrence of a Chinese character or word anywhere in the entry. Browse through the list of results with a thumb index, sorted by where in the entry the search term was found (position 1, position 2, ...)
• Supports both traditional and simplified characters with an easy-toggle button. Great for learners who constantly flip back and forth!
• Word lists. Save your searches in categorized word lists for later review.
• A word on the clipboard will initiate a search on startup.
• Recents tab keeps track of searches for quick review.
• Supports landscape mode, with portrait/landscape lock.
• CC-CEDICT 2009-08-04 (86,588 entries)
• ABC CE Comprehensive 2009-06 (201,138 entries)
• ABC EC Dictionary 2009-06 (18,630 entries)
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What's New In Version 2.1.1
NOTE: THE NEW ABC ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY IS AN OPTIONAL PURCHASE. PLEASE CLICK SUPPORT LINK FOR MORE DETAILS.
Changes in 2.1.1
• Clipboard search is OFF by default. Turn on in Settings. Quit iCED, go to your iPhone Settings, select iCED and turn on “Search on startup”.
• Bug fixes.
Changes in 2.1
• FULL-TEXT searching of ABC CE and CC-CEDICT dictionaries. This brings back version 1.x functionality.
• Automatic dictionary index selection based on search keyword.
• Updated format of CC-CEDICT English Index.
• Works with iPhone OS 3.0 through 3.1.3.
[NOTE: Due to the large size of this app, we recommend that you download it with iTunes on your desktop and then sync it to your device.]
Customer Reviews
Indispensable!
Easily the most comprehensive C-E dictionary available (the complete version of DeFrancis’ “ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary” which weighs more than 14 iPhones at >1,400 pages). Unlike most pinyin dictionaries, which are arranged by character, the ABC uses a purely alphabetic arrangement. For example, in a traditional dictionary, “yinwei” comes before “yingguo” because all the “yin” characters precede the “ying” ones. In the ABC approach, the simply alphabetic arrangement makes looking up polysyllabic words more natural.
Results are returned quickly as the search term is entered (tones optional), and the definitions are more extensive than most other iPhone dictionaries. There are example sentences, and the meanings of individual characters are independently searchable, allowing you to drill down on meanings. While there's no English to Chinese per se, the search of English definitions comes up with a resulting set of Chinese equivalents, making the functionality basically the same. There's also a history of recent searches, which is handy for translators who forget what they recently looked up. Switching between traditional and simplified is easy, and common tone variations are included. Finally, if having a 200,000 entry dictionary seems overkill, there's another very valuable feature: words are ranked (and marked) in order of common frequency, with more likely candidates at the top.
Given that the hardcover edition cannot perform the digital trickery this application can, let alone can’t fit in your pocket (and costs over $50), I certainly can’t complain about the price. I use this dictionary literally every day and would be lost without it. The developer is very responsive to users concerns and version 1.4, with several enhancements and fixes, was released within weeks of the last release.
FWIW, this dictionary, as extensive as it is, does not entirely eliminate the need for a less expensive CC-CDICT-based dictionaries (like KT-Dict or QingWen). A search for “gongli” in a CDICT may return only half as as many results (70K vs 200K entries after all) but will include the Chinese actress, if that matters to you. 5 STARS!
Excellent Chinese dictionary app
I am very pleased with the Pro version, having tried this out in the Lite variety previously. The specs of the app tell all the features, and I won't repeat them here. I have found that it certainly does everything it advertises and is great fun as well. You can spend literally hours just browsing around--starting with any word you happen to look up. You then click on the character components of the word, which in turn take you to one new word and expression after the other. For an advanced beginner like me, this is extremely illuminating as to the usage of different words and characters. I find I am beginning to absorb the real essence of each word and character as a result.
Looking things up is easy, and the app changes the list of choices dynamically as you type in pinyin entries. It is wonderful to have the Traditional/Simplified toggle button; you can see instantly which characters in a given word are different in the two versions, even flipping back and forth in very rapid succession. The dictionary has a huge number of words and phrases included and will keep most users happy. It does not appear to include "street language," however, so you may come up with nothing if you look up slangy usage from English to Chinese.
I have found the developer to be very responsive to questions and suggestions and am confident that the app will continue to get better and better. It is admittedly a bit pricey, but for the convenience of carrying around this entire 200,000+ dictionary on your iPod it is well worth it. In addition, it is easier to use by far than a print dictionary.
Definitely give the free or Lite version a try if you have doubts; the interface is the same and will give you a great feel for the app.
Not a good update
Don't update, the new update requires you to purchase a new English/ Chinese dictionary for $20??? Why is the new update so not user friendly? I can't believe I updated! Very dissapointed.
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$34.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated:Feb 10, 2010
- Current Version:2.1.1
- 2.1.1
- 308 MB
- Languages:English, French
- Seller:Murage Inc.
- © 2009 Murage Inc.
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
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