Hanyu da ZIdian

[Eric Rasmussen]

Speaking of massive Chinese dictionaries in Unicode, I recently
downloaded a PDF of the Hanyu da zidian. I went online to try to see
if I could order a printed copy, and stumbled across it. It is the
original 8 volume edition which was completed in 1990 (Wikipedia says
1989, but that appears to be incorrect). There is a corrected 3-volume
edition that dates to 1995. But the original is better than nothing.

Anyhow, there are over 6000 pages in the PDF! The best thing is that
the person has done a great job numbering the pages, so you can
actually find your way around without going insane -- page 5748 in the
dictionary is page 5748 in the PDF.

1. It's on a site called Fliiby. The first download is here:

http://fliiby.com/file/62091/kvl9mfzy5g.html

The filenames look like this:

汉语大字典（八卷本）.part01.rar

This link is to the page for the first file. There are 19 total (the
first 18 are 30 MB each). Do them in order and the next one will keep
popping up in the list on the right. To do it efficiently, you'll need
to join Fliiby, which is painless. But it's not absolutely necessary.

2. Once you've got all 19 of the .rar files, put them all in folder
and make sure you have the free Stuffit Expander installed. It doesn't
come with the latest Mac OS X systems, so you might need to install
it. Get it here:

http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander.html

3. Then just double click on the first .rar file. Expander will do the
rest, creating a 552.9 MB PDF file.

Let me know if this doesn't work -- I may have forgotten something.

Eric

This user has a lot of other stuff in the "Books" folder. But it's not
all in PDF format, so I haven't gotten around to really exploring it...

[Pascale]

Thanks a lot Eric ! A great discover !

You can also use UnRarX or The Unarchiver
It's free (donation if you like it) and no registration is required.

UnRarX
http://www.unrarx.com/
The Unarchiver
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

I add that because I've tried Stuffit, and for me it garbled Chinese
characters of the file. Not the case with the softwares mentionned
above. I use them since few years now, and never had problem. The first
one is really good, it has already uncompressed corrupted .rar files for
me few times.

Thanks again !
Pascale.

Eric Rasmussen a écrit :

[Christopher Cullen]

This sounds very interesting ... are these the kind of pdfs that you
can copy and paste from, or are they just images?

I suspect the former, since otherwise they would be unmanageably huge,
no?

Christopher Cullen

[Pascale]

You have suspected well, Christopher… But it's not so bad to have it in
a computer, and the quality is correct enough. I've few other
specialised Chinese dictionaries in PDF, generally, the quality is not
so good.

Pascale

Christopher Cullen a écrit :

[Andrew Main]

I too prefer The Unarchiver for working with compressed formats Mac OS
X doesn't handle, including most StuffIt files (I haven't tried
UnRarX). If you want to get StuffIt Expander without going through
Smith Micro's annoying "registration" page, download it direct from
MacUpdate (.dmg) (check the reviews)
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20954/stuffit-expander-2010>

or the Apple download page (ironically, .zip)
<http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/
stuffitexpander.html>

[TenThousandThings]

> Christopher Cullen a écrit :
> > This sounds very interesting ... are these the kind of pdfs that you  
> > can copy and paste from, or are they just images?
>
> > I suspect the former, since otherwise they would be unmanageably huge,  
> > no?

Actually, no. Pascale has got former and latter mixed up. They are the
latter -- just images. After it is unarchived, it is a single PDF. The
person who made it did an excellent job, since slightly more than half
a gigabyte is pretty small for a 6044 page document with this type of
image quality. I have a 1920x1200 display and I can use it at full
screen size for easy reading with no problems.

Eric

[Pascale]

Oups, that's what I meant. I've just mixed all things. Verry sorry about
that.
Thanks for the rectification Eric.

Pascale.

TenThousandThings a écrit :