Package cedict provides a parser / tokenizer for reading entries from the CC-CEDict Chinese dictionary project.

Assuming you have Go installed, installation is as easy as running:

go get github.com/hermanschaaf/cedict

You will need a copy of the CEDict dictionary text file. You can download CEDict from MDBG.net. Extract the file somewhere you want to use it from, and then follow the usage instructions below.

Tokenizing is done by creating a CEDict for an io.Reader r. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that r provides a CEDict-formatted dictionary.

    import "github.com/hermanschaaf/cedict"

    ...

    c := cedict.New(r) // r is an io.Reader to the cedict file

Given a CEDict called c, the dictionary is tokenized by repeatedly calling c.NextEntry(), which parses until it reaches the next entry, or an error if no more entries are found:

    for {
        err := c.NextEntry()
        if err != nil {
            break
        }
        entry := c.Entry()
        fmt.Println(entry.Simplified, entry.Definitions[0])
    }

To retrieve the current entry, the Entry method can be called. There is also a lower-level API available, using the bufio.Scanner Scan method. Using this lower-level API is the recommended way to read comments from the CEDict, should that be necessary.

Full documentation can be found at https://godoc.org/github.com/hermanschaaf/cedict