StarDict developed by Hu Zheng () is a free GUI released under the GPL for accessing StarDict dictionary files (a dictionary shell). It is the successor of the program StarDic developed by Ma Su'an (). The version number of StarDict follows that of StarDic.

StarDict 2.4.2 was made portable and can be found here. Contents 1 Supported Platforms 2 Dictionaries available 3 Other Features 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Supported Platforms

StarDict runs under Linux Microsoft Windows FreeBSD Maemo and Solaris. Dictionaries of the user's choice are installed separately. Dictionary files can be created by converting DICT files.1

Several StarDict-compatible programs are available for the iPhone iPod touch and iPad in the App Store including GuruDic weDict Dictionary Universal... also the free iStarDict which is available for the Cydia Store. As far as mobile devices are concerned there is also mDictionary an application for the Maemo and MeeGo platform which among other dictionary formats supports StarDict. Android based devices may try ColorDict or Wordmate. The NewDictS homebrew Nintendo DS program is also available for StarDict. Dictionaries available

One can find here the partial list of FreeDict dictionaries which can be converted to the StarDict format. These include in particular some older versions of Websters dictionary and many dictionaries for various languages. Other Features

While StarDict is in scan mode results are displayed in a tooltip allowing easy dictionary lookup. When combined with Freedict StarDict will quickly provide rough translations of foreign language websites.

On September 25 2006 an online version of Stardict began operation. This online version includes access to all the major dictionaries of StarDict as well as Wikipedia in Chinese.

Previous versions of StarDict were very similar to the PowerWord2 dictionary program which is developed by a Chinese company KingSoft. Since version 2.4.2 however StarDict has diverged from the design of PowerWord by increasing its search capabilities and adding lexicons in a variety of languages. This was assisted by the collaboration of many developers with the author. A developer named Evgeniy A. Dushistov produced the command line version of StarDict called sdcv. See also Machine translation sdcv Lingea Lexicon References The program to do this conversion is installed to /usr/lib/stardict-tools/dictd2dic by the stardict-tools package. PowerWord External links StarDict.org online dictionary Stardict project homepage RPM resource stardict-dictionary How to install StarDict on Linux maemo os2008 (in Russian) Files to read and to learn how to create StarDict dictionaries: HowToCreateDictionary and StarDictFileFormat. XDXF Dictionaries Download (choose StarDict in download format).