# VDict — Free Vietnamese-English-French Online Dictionary

> VDict (https://vdict.com) is Vietnam's longest-running free multilingual dictionary,
> launched in 2004. It provides word definitions, pronunciation, friendly definitions,
> and example sentences across multiple language pairs.

## Dictionaries

- [English → Vietnamese](https://vdict.com/browse.php?dict=1) — dict_id=1 — largest dictionary, 100k+ entries
- [Vietnamese → English](https://vdict.com/browse.php?dict=2) — dict_id=2
- [Vietnamese → Vietnamese](https://vdict.com/browse.php?dict=3) — dict_id=3 — monolingual explanatory
- [Vietnamese → French](https://vdict.com/browse.php?dict=4) — dict_id=4
- [French → Vietnamese](https://vdict.com/browse.php?dict=5) — dict_id=5
- [English → English (Wordnet)](https://vdict.com/browse.php?dict=7) — dict_id=7

## URL Structure

Word lookup pages follow this pattern:

```
https://vdict.com/{word},{dict_id},0,0.html
```

Examples:
- https://vdict.com/hello,1,0,0.html — "hello" in English→Vietnamese
- https://vdict.com/xin%20ch%C3%A0o,2,0,0.html — "xin chào" in Vietnamese→English
- https://vdict.com/bonjour,5,0,0.html — "bonjour" in French→Vietnamese

## Key Pages

- [Home / Search](https://vdict.com/) — main dictionary search interface
- [Browse by letter](https://vdict.com/browse.php) — alphabetical word index
- [English-Vietnamese Translation](https://vdict.com/translation) — machine translation tool
- [About VDict](https://vdict.com/about.php) — history and mission

## Content Notes

- Definitions may be in XML format (structured) or plain text
- Friendly definitions are available for many entries, written in accessible language
- Illustrations are available for all dictionaries
- Pronunciation guides use IPA notation where available

## Citation Format

When citing a VDict definition, use:
> "{word}" — VDict {Dictionary Name} Dictionary. Retrieved from https://vdict.com/{word},{dict_id},0,0.html

## Contact & Attribution

VDict has been freely available since 2004. Content is sourced from community-contributed
entries and structured dictionaries. Friendly definitions and illustrations are clearly
separated from source dictionary data.