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Dictionary projects on GitHub

Dictionary and translation lookup tools for words and phrases.

As of October 19, 2026, the most-starred Dictionary projects on GitHub are koreader (30.4K stars), rime-ice (19.8K stars) and pot-desktop (19.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 16 Dictionary repositories with 201K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was awesome-chinese-secondhand-slang, with +222 stars in a day.

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201KStars in total

+359Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+222

awesome-chinese-secondhand-slang

Domainsun/awesome-chinese-secondhand-slang · ★ 147

This is a curated Chinese-language glossary of secondhand marketplace slang (黑话) used on platforms like Xianyu (Goofish), Zhuanzhuan and Xiaohongshu, covering 4,000+ real-world code words with both buyer scam-avoidance tips and seller compliance-safe alternative phrasing.

+35

koreader

koreader/koreader · ★ 30.4K

KOReader is a free, open-source ebook reader and document viewer primarily aimed at e-ink devices like Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Cervantes and reMarkable, and it also runs on Android and Linux.

+33

msime-windows

metasequoiaime/msime-windows · ★ 3K

Metasequoia IME (水杉输入法) is a free, open-source Windows input method for Chinese and Japanese, built entirely on the TSF (Text Services Framework) architecture.

+16

crosspoint-reader

crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader · ★ 8.4K

CrossPoint is open-source firmware for ESP32-based e-ink e-readers: community-built, fully hackable and free forever, built on the idea that your device should do what you want - not what a manufacturer decided.

The all-time top

16 projects · by stars

#1 · koreader/koreader
koreader
KOReader is a free, open-source ebook reader and document viewer primarily aimed at e-ink devices like Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Cervantes and reMarkable, and it also runs on Android and Linux.
30.4K
#2 · iDvel/rime-ice
rime-ice
rime-ice (雾凇拼音) is a ready-to-use configuration for the Rime input method: Simplified Chinese full- and double-pinyin schemes plus a long-term maintained, hand-proofread dictionary. It runs fully offline on nearly every Rime frontend.
19.8K
#3 · pot-app/pot-desktop
pot-desktop
Pot is a cross-platform desktop app for instant translation: select text anywhere on screen, press a hotkey, get a translation. It also does screenshot OCR, text-to-speech, and exports words to vocabulary apps like Anki.
19.4K

4
CopyTranslator
18.1KCopyTranslator/CopyTranslator · TypeScript
A desktop assistant for reading foreign-language text: copy any text, e.g. from a PDF, and CopyTranslator watches the clipboard, cleans the text up and immediately shows the translation.
5
analysis-ik
17.5Kinfinilabs/analysis-ik · Java
A plugin for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch that integrates the Lucene IK analyzer, adding Chinese word segmentation with support for customized dictionaries.
6
zxcvbn
16.1Kdropbox/zxcvbn · CoffeeScript
zxcvbn is an open-source JavaScript password strength estimator from Dropbox, inspired by password crackers. Instead of checking rules, it rates how guessable a password is through pattern matching and adds short verbal feedback.
7
Easydict
15Ktisfeng/Easydict · Swift
Easydict is a macOS app for looking up word definitions and translating text, pulling results from multiple dictionary and translation services at once.
8
ext-saladict
13.4Kcrimx/ext-saladict · TypeScript
Saladict (沙拉查词) is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that pops up a dictionary when you select a word, translates whole pages, and lets you build a personal word notebook, including inside PDFs.
9
english-words
12.3Kdwyl/english-words · Python
A text file of English words — over 466k per the README, 479k in the repo description — published for dictionary and word-based projects such as auto-complete and autosuggestion.
10
chinese-xinhua
11.7Kpwxcoo/chinese-xinhua · Python
A Chinese Xinhua Dictionary database (中华新华字典数据库): four JSON datasets with 31,648 idioms, 264,434 words, 16,142 characters and 14,032 xiehouyu (two-part allegorical sayings), collected from the web.
11
imewlconverter
10.4Kstudyzy/imewlconverter · C#
An open-source, free input method dictionary converter (深蓝词库转换). It moves your word dictionaries between 20+ Chinese input method tools — Sogou, QQ, Baidu, Rime, Microsoft Pinyin and more — and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.
12
crosspoint-reader
8.4Kcrosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader · C
CrossPoint is open-source firmware for ESP32-based e-ink e-readers: community-built, fully hackable and free forever, built on the idea that your device should do what you want - not what a manufacturer decided.
13
dictionary-of-ai-coding
5.2Kmattpocock/dictionary-of-ai-coding · TypeScript
A free dictionary that explains AI coding jargon in plain English — terms like context window, harness, and MCP — so the basics stop feeling like guesswork and are learnable in an afternoon.
14
msime-windows
3Kmetasequoiaime/msime-windows · C++
Metasequoia IME (水杉输入法) is a free, open-source Windows input method for Chinese and Japanese, built entirely on the TSF (Text Services Framework) architecture.
15
readingspace-mn
151Awaker-OTE/readingspace-mn · JavaScript
Reading Space MN is a reading workflow plugin for MarginNote 4 that brings AI explanation and Q&A, an in-app browser, audio read-aloud, and Obsidian export right next to your selections, excerpts, and mind-map cards.
16
awesome-chinese-secondhand-slang
147Domainsun/awesome-chinese-secondhand-slang
This is a curated Chinese-language glossary of secondhand marketplace slang (黑话) used on platforms like Xianyu (Goofish), Zhuanzhuan and Xiaohongshu, covering 4,000+ real-world code words with both buyer scam-avoidance tips and seller compliance-safe alternative phrasing.