The CEDICT project was started by Paul Denisowski in 1997 and is maintained by a team on mdbg.net under the name CC-CEDICT, with the aim to provide a complete Chinese to English dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters.
CEDICT is a text file; other programs (or simply Notepad or egrep or equivalent) are needed to search and display it.
This project is used by several other Chinese-English projects.
The Unihan Database uses CEDICT data for most of its information about character compounds, but this is auxiliary and is explicitly not a part of the main Unicode database.
[1] Features: The basic format of a CEDICT entry is: Example of a simple egrep search: CEDICT has shown the way to some other projects: