Syng is a free, open source, Chinese-To-English and English-To-Chinese Dictionary app that makes it easy to lookup words and phrases quickly. This service will be made for desktop operating systems, and there are no plans to build something for mobile platforms. For a good mobile platform alternative the app Pleco is an excellent option.
Syng is a stylized spelling of CiYing, the PinYin for 词应. 词应 has been shorted from 词典应用, literally translating to Dictionary App.
- Search
- Syng will allow you to search by PinYin, English, and Chinese characters (both traditional and simplified)
- Save
- Syng will allow you to save words and searches to your "Bookmarks", so that you can reference them later.
- Study
- Syng will let you study Chinese by creating flash cards out of your saved words and searches.
- Syng will also test you on your knowledge and progress of your Chinese to measure your language development.
- Offline Support
- Cross-Platform
- Mac OS X
- Windows
- Linux
- Search (for Characters, Pinyin, and English)
- Saving searches to Bookmarks
- Studying Flashcards
- Generating tests have not been built yet
- Electron
- Framework for Native Cross-Platform Support
- CC-CEDICT
- Chinese Dictionary Database
- The file has been modified to JSON
- Photon
- User Interface
- Heavily modified version of node-cc-cedict by John Heroy
- Node.js framework for CC-CEDICT Dictionary
- Modified to work using hashtables and support English search functionality.
- Franc
- Language Detection for Search
- Fork it!
- Create a branch
git checkout my-feature - Commit your changes
- Submit a pull request
- First go to the project directory
cd /path/to/project - Install the dependencies
npm install - Run Syng
electron .
This software is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.