Dictionary Converter — Matcha Reader Tools

What do you read?

Pick an edition

Simplified For books from mainland China. Pinyin, HSK levels, example sentences. Traditional For books from Taiwan. Pinyin with zhuyin, TOCFL levels, example sentences. Cantonese For books in written Cantonese, as in Hong Kong. CC-Canto and CC-CEDICT with jyutping and pinyin, example sentences. My own files Another dictionary, or your own word lists.

Choose the dictionary file(s)

Tap to choose one or more dictionary files

MDict registration (encrypted .mdx only)

Registration code — 32 hex characters, from the dictionary's owner Email or device ID — whichever the code was registered to

Extras — all optional

Word frequency list — puts the common sense of a word first. jieba's dict.txt (dict.txt.big for traditional) or any one-word-per-line list

Graded word list — hsk30.csv or tocfl-202307.csv

Level label

Example sentences — Tatoeba sentence pairs (Chinese–English) or a sentence<TAB>translation file

Keep sentences in

Zhuyin beside the pinyin For Taiwanese Mandarin. Proper nouns in their own names dictionary Places, people and dynasties show as Name entries.

More options

Read the frequency list — auto ranks by the count column when there is one, else by row order Cantonese readings — cccedict-canto-readings from cantonese.org adds jyutping to CC-CEDICT entries Dictionary name in the lookup panel — default: the sources, e.g. CC-CEDICT + MoE

Which dictionary is this?

Put it on the reader

Unzip the download at the root of the SD card, or upload it with the reader's Wi-Fi file transfer. The files land in /dict/ and Word Lookup finds them on its own.

What goes where

Each language has its own folder: /dict/ (or /dictionaries/jp/) for Japanese, /dictionaries/zh/ for Chinese, /dictionaries/yue/ for books tagged Cantonese. A folder holds up to three dictionaries:

vocab.idx    vocab.dat    vocab.spx    vocab.title      (vocabulary — required)
names.idx    names.dat    names.spx    names.title      (names — optional)
grammar.idx  grammar.dat  grammar.spx  grammar.title    (grammar — optional)

A Chinese dictionary built with proper nouns split off writes names.* beside vocab.* in one go. Large dictionaries (Jitendex is about 60 MB) take a minute and some memory to convert.

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