DDB Access 2020.04
Device: Mac OS
Category: Education
Price: Free, Version: 2019.12 -> 2020.04 (iTunes)
Description:DDB (Digital Dictionary of Buddhism) and CJKV-E (Classical Chinese) are collaborative works edited by Charles Muller, University of Tokyo. DDB Access gives access to DDB and CJKV-E from iPhone and iPad.
DDB Access is a free app. Any user may access the dictionary by entering "guest" as the username with no password. This will allow a total of 10 searches in each of the DDB and CJKV-E dictionaries in a 24-hour period.
Contributors can get unlimited access by submitting a 350+ word entry as specified at http://www.buddhism-dict.net/contribute.html
DDB and CJKV-E are primarily resources for scholars. Contributors are required to have completed a graduate degree to at least the equivalent of the M.A. level in graduate school program at a fully accredited university, where one has received direct formal training in the reading of classical East Asian Buddhist texts.
Features:
- Search dictionaries by Chinese or by translation.
- Text reader: copy a full text and get all words with one click.
- User chooses to show pronunciations in Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese.
DDB Access is also available for iPhone and iPad.
Michael Beddow developed and steadfastly maintained the DDB/CJKV-E servers for almost two decades. Paul Hackett has now taken this responsibility.
What's New
Besides recognizing the correspondence between simplified and traditional variants, this version also recognizes multiple traditional variants. For instance, searching/parsing 真 will show both 真 and 眞, according to what is present in selected dictionaries. Or it will recognize equally well 為/爲 or 眾/衆.
For scholars working on Buddhist texts that contain literary or terminology, the application now includes general purpose dictionaries: CEDICT (Chinese-English), CFDict (Chinese-French) and HanDeDict(Chinese-German). They are not active by default. Use "Select" (in dictionary combo) or the "Options" button to activate them.
The presentation was also improved with more appealing color themes.
DDB Access