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OpenCidian: open Chinese ↔ Vietnamese dictionary (Hán Việt, pinyin, character breakdown) MCP

v0.3.0

io.github.opencidian/opencidian

Open Chinese-Vietnamese dictionary by Perxel: Hán Việt, pinyin, meanings, characters. Cited.

transport:streamable-http tools:7

Target client

run in your project directory

claude mcp add --transport http opencidian https://opencidian-mcp.perxel.com/mcp

setup guides: Claude Code Claude Desktop Cursor VS Code Zed Windsurf Cline Gemini CLI Grok ChatGPT Claude.ai LangChain

Adds it for this project only. Append --scope user to make it available everywhere. Claude Code docs

lookup Read-only

lookup

get_character Read-only

get character

words_with

words with

search_meaning Read-only

search meaning

annotate_text

annotate text

suggest_correction

suggest correction

about

about

All 7 tools, one page each

1 prompt you invoke yourself

Mutating and Read-only are read off each tool's name, not its schema — a hint, not a guarantee. Check the server's own documentation before granting access.