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Dictionary Data Sources

Attribution and download links for the dictionaries that power MoaVoca's word lookups.

MoaVoca builds its word lookup feature on top of several openly-licensed dictionary datasets, most distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). We attribute each source and link to its upstream dataset and license below. The example sentences, translations, and explanations shown in the app are generated by our own pipeline; we use the open word-sets as factual reference data and re-select them. Where any content we publish is a derivative of a CC BY-SA dataset, that derivative is made available under the same CC BY-SA license as required by the source.

Sources

LanguageSourceLicense
Korean krdict (한국어기초사전)
API & dataset access — National Institute of Korean Language
우리말샘 (Urimalsaem) — NIKL Open Dictionary, source of Korean proverbs (속담) & idioms (사자성어)
Wiktionary (Korean) via kaikki.org — Korean idiom headwords 		CC BY-SA 2.0 KR CC BY-SA 4.0
Japanese JMdict / EDICT
Download page — Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG) 		CC BY-SA 4.0
Chinese CC-CEDICT
Download page — MDBG / community-maintained 		CC BY-SA 3.0
English Wiktionary (English) via kaikki.org
Raw dataset — extracted from English Wiktionary 		CC BY-SA 4.0 / GFDL
Spanish Wiktionary (Spanish) via kaikki.org
Raw dataset 		CC BY-SA 4.0 / GFDL
French Wiktionary (French) via kaikki.org
Raw dataset 		CC BY-SA 4.0 / GFDL
German Wiktionary (German) via kaikki.org
Raw dataset 		CC BY-SA 4.0 / GFDL
Italian Wiktionary (Italian) via kaikki.org
Raw dataset 		CC BY-SA 4.0 / GFDL

How we use this data

License compliance. MoaVoca's use of these sources satisfies the BY (attribution) clause via this page and the in-app credits at Settings → Open Source Licenses → Dictionary Data Sources. To the extent MoaVoca redistributes an adapted copy of any CC BY-SA dataset, that adapted copy is licensed under the same CC BY-SA license (or a compatible one) and is made available on request (see below), satisfying the SA (ShareAlike) clause.
Need our processed copy?
Researchers, developers, or fellow open-source projects who would like a snapshot of MoaVoca's import-normalized dataset (rather than the upstream original) may request one by emailing support@moavoca.com. We aim to respond within 30 days.