Chinese Vocab List

A list of Chinese vocabulary words with definitions, pronunciations, and example sentences. Under a CC-BY-SA license. See chinese_vocab_list.yaml for the list itself.

Used by the Chinese Prestudy Anki addon. See this blog post for more details.

Contributing

There are a few ways to contribute:

• Making changes to the source code in src/.
• Making changes files in contrib_files/:
  • subtlex_dupes.yaml lists words that are redundant with other words. For example, 身上: 身 in that file means that instead of learning the word "身上", someone should just learn the word "身".
  • preferred_entries.yaml indicates which entries from CC-CEDICT are the best to use for each word. Only needed when you increase the size of the vocab list and it complains because it finds a word with multiple definition. Note: some words have multiple meanings that are worth learning but are split across different entries in CC-CEDICT. For example, 只 and 面. I don't have a good way to represent these in chinese_vocab_list.yaml yet.
• Directly modifying chinese_vocab_list.yaml.

If you change src/ or contrib_files/, be sure to run make chinese_vocab_list.yaml and check in both your changes and the generated changes to chinese_vocab_list.yaml.

Updating reference_files:

• cc_cedict.txt: Run curl https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/export/cedict/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt.gz | gunzip > reference_files/cc_cedict.txt
  • You may need to update contrib_files/preferred_entries.yaml and/or other files in order to handle the update. Run make and fix errors until the vocab list builds cleanly.

Publishing to PyPI

If your name is Kerrick, you can publish the chinesevocablist package to PyPI by running these commands from the root of the repo:

rm -rf dist/*
python3 -m build
python3 -m twine upload dist/*

Note that this directly uploads to prod PyPI and skips uploading to test PyPI.