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Dictionary credits

Shiberu looks words up in dictionaries made by others. Here is who made each one and the licence its data is used under, with links to the full licences. Dataset names and licences are given as their makers word them.

Japanese

JMdict

© Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group
Adapted by Shiberu: English glosses indexed back to JMdict headwords, filtered and ranked

JMdict German glosses: WaDokuJT

WaDokuJT / Wadoku e.V. (Ulrich Apel), www.wadoku.de; via EDRDG's JMdict

JMdict Spanish glosses: Hispadic + RUI

Hispadic (CJKI) and RUI by Francisco Barberan; via EDRDG's JMdict
Hispadic: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/); RUI: © Francisco Barberan

JMdict French glosses

Jean-Marc Desperrier and the JMdict Internationalization project; via EDRDG's JMdict
© the compilers; included unmodified, withdrawn on request

JMdict Russian glosses: Warodai

Warodai (warodai.ru); via EDRDG's JMdict

JMdict Dutch glosses

Compiled by the Waran Jiten dictionary wiki, Japanese Studies, KU Leuven; via EDRDG's JMdict
© the compilers; included unmodified, withdrawn on request

JMdict Hungarian glosses

Compiled by István Varga with NLP techniques; via EDRDG's JMdict
© the compilers; included unmodified, withdrawn on request

JMdict Slovenian glosses: jaSlo

Compiled from jaSlo, the Japanese-Slovene learner's dictionary (Kristina Hmeljak Sangawa et al., University of Ljubljana); via EDRDG's JMdict

JMdict Swedish glosses

Compiled from EDICT and an English-Swedish dictionary, then revised by hand; via EDRDG's JMdict
© the compilers; included unmodified, withdrawn on request

tomoshi-dict-data

Tomoshi (Y1Z); based on JMdict © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group

ejdict-hand

kujirahand (Kujira Hikuzou)
Public domain

Chinese

CC-CEDICT

CC-CEDICT community, hosted by MDBG
Adapted by Shiberu: English glosses indexed back to CC-CEDICT headwords, filtered and ranked; Taiwan words chosen with OpenCC

HanDeDict

HanDeDict contributors; Gábor L Ugray; originally made with the Chinesisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V. Hamburg
Adapted by Shiberu: German glosses indexed back to HanDeDict headwords, filtered and ranked; Traditional Chinese converted with OpenCC

CVDICT

Phong Phan (CVDICT); CC-CEDICT (MDBG)

CC-CIDICT

Harmony Mandarin; based on CC-CEDICT (MDBG)

ECDICT

© 2025 Linwei (skywind3000) and ECDICT contributors
Licence notice
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2025 Linwei
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Korean

KRDICT — Korean Learners’ Dictionary

© National Institute of Korean Language (국립국어원)
Adapted by Shiberu: the equivalents and definitions KRDICT gives a Korean sense in its other languages, matched to Japanese and Chinese headwords via that Korean word, filtered and ranked; Traditional Chinese headwords converted with OpenCC; Spanish words given the Japanese and Chinese equivalents of the Korean senses they are the first Spanish equivalent of

Urimalsaem (우리말샘) — Open Korean Dictionary

© National Institute of Korean Language (국립국어원)

Cantonese

CC-Canto

Copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated; includes entries adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC-CEDICT community, hosted by MDBG, CC BY-SA)
Adapted by Shiberu: meanings reformatted (separators, part-of-speech labels, numbered meanings, measure words; classical meanings and Cantonese-only lines of a character after its general meanings), Jyutping normalised, the pinyin and Mandarin pronunciation notes left out, Simplified spellings checked with OpenCC, duplicate readings merged

CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings + CC-CEDICT

Cantonese readings: Copyright (c) 2015 Pleco Software Incorporated; CC-CEDICT: CC-CEDICT community, hosted by MDBG
Adapted by Shiberu: Pleco's Cantonese readings joined to today's CC-CEDICT entries, Jyutping normalised, the pinyin left out (also in cross-references), Mandarin measure words and pronunciation notes left out, entries of one reading merged

開放粵語詞典 (Kaifangcidian Cantonese Dictionary)

© 2013 kaifangcidian.com (開放詞典)
Adapted by Shiberu: only words with a Standard Chinese explanation, explanations split into meanings, Jyutping normalised

words.hk 粵典

© Hong Kong Lexicography Limited (香港辭書有限公司), words.hk
Licensed under the Non-Commercial Open Data License ( https://words.hk/base/hoifong/ ). Used with written permission of Hong Kong Lexicography Limited (2026-11)
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu: published entries' definitions only (no examples), link marks removed, word classes and labels named in English. Not sub-licensed: for a licence of your own, ask words.hk
Licence notice
Copyright (c) 2015-2025, Hong Kong Lexicography Limited. All rights reserved. You may be eligible for a license to use this work under the Non-Commercial Open Data License.
THIS WORK IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND/OR COPYRIGHT OWNERS ''AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS AND/OR COPYRIGHT OWNERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS WORK, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Credits List (特別鳴謝, https://words.hk/base/about/): Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus (HKCanCor); 香港大學語言學系; 林璃蝶女士; Can Cheng; 昭源字體 Chiron Fonts; 劉擇明博士
Licensed under the Non-Commercial Open Data License ( https://words.hk/base/hoifong/ ). Used with written permission of Hong Kong Lexicography Limited (2026-11). Not sub-licensed: for a licence of your own, ask words.hk (https://words.hk/).

Every language

English Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

Wiktionary contributors; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Adapted by Shiberu: definitions and translation equivalents filtered and reformatted; Spanish words given the Japanese, Korean and Chinese equivalents listed beside them under one English sense (matched through English, labelled "via English"); Spanish inflected forms linked to their headwords

Chinese Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

Chinese Wiktionary contributors; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Filtered, reformatted and converted between Traditional and Simplified Chinese by Shiberu

Japanese Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

Japanese Wiktionary contributors; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu

Korean Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

Korean Wiktionary contributors; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu

French Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

French Wiktionary contributors; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu

Russian Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

Russian Wiktionary contributors; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu

Vietnamese Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

Vietnamese Wiktionary contributors, with English entries from Hồ Ngọc Đức's Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu

Portuguese Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

Portuguese Wiktionary contributors; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu

Thai Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

Thai Wiktionary contributors; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu

Spanish Wiktionary + kaikki.org/wiktextract

Spanish Wiktionary contributors; Tatu Ylonen / wiktextract
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu; its Spanish words' translation tables read for their Japanese, Korean and Chinese words

Shiberu Dictionary (machine translations of dictionary meanings)

Machine translations by Shiberu of the meanings in JMdict (© Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group), CC-CEDICT (CC-CEDICT community, hosted by MDBG), KRDICT and Urimalsaem (우리말샘) (© National Institute of Korean Language) and Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, via kaikki.org/wiktextract); their credits apply
Adapted by Shiberu: each word's existing dictionary meanings (headword, reading, part of speech and senses) machine-translated sense by sense into the reader's language by AI models (Anthropic's Claude), only for words no dictionary explains in that language; checked by AI judges, not reviewed by people; shown "machine-made"

Characters and word frequency

KANJIDIC2

© Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group; Spanish meanings compiled by Francisco Gutierrez and provided by Gabriel Sanroman
Filtered and reformatted by Shiberu: a kanji's first four Spanish meanings, filed as the meanings of the single-kanji Japanese word

KANJIDIC2 + Unihan

© Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group; © Unicode, Inc.

libhangul hanja table

© Choe Hwanjin
BSD 3-clause

FrequencyWords (OpenSubtitles corpus)

Hermit Dave; OpenSubtitles.org corpus

Korean frequency list (FineWeb-2, CC-100, KcBERT comments, DC Inside comments, NSMC, Korean Wikipedia, OPUS OpenSubtitles)

Counted by Shiberu from FineWeb-2 (Hugging Face, ODC-By 1.0), CC-100 (statmt.org), Naver news comments (KcBERT corpus, Lee Junbum, CC BY-SA 4.0), DC Inside comments (Apache-2.0), NSMC (Lucy Park, CC0), Korean Wikipedia contributors and the OPUS OpenSubtitles corpus (opensubtitles.org; Lison & Tiedemann 2016)

Cantonese frequency list (FineWeb-2, HPLT 2.0, Cantonese Wikipedia, HKCanCor, Tatoeba, Common Voice)

Counted by Shiberu from FineWeb-2 (Hugging Face, ODC-By 1.0), HPLT 2.0 (CC0), Cantonese Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0), the Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus (HKCanCor; Luke & Wong 2015, CC BY 4.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) and Mozilla Common Voice (CC0)
Questions or corrections: [email protected].