Converting chinese to pinyin

问题

I've found places on the web such as http://www.chinesetopinyin.com/ that convert Chinese characters to pinyin (romanization). Does anyone know how to do this, or have a database that can be parsed?

EDIT: I'm using C# but would actually prefer a database/flatfile.

回答1:

possible solution using Python:

I think that Unicode database contains pinyin romanizations for chinese characters, but these are not included in unicodedata module data.

however, you can use some external libraries, like cjklib, example:

# coding: UTF-8
import cjklib
from cjklib.characterlookup import CharacterLookup

c = u'好'

cjk = CharacterLookup('T')
readings = cjk.getReadingForCharacter(c, 'Pinyin')
for r in readings:
    print r

output:

hāo
hǎo
hào

UPDATE

cjklib comes with an standalone cjknife utility, which micht help. some usage is described here

回答2:

If you use java, you can use pinyin4j.

http://pinyin4j.sourceforge.net/

回答3:

Okay, first I used my question here to get the unicode:

Converting chinese character to Unicode

Then took a file like this to convert it: http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/Notes/061/uc-to-py.tbl

回答4:

Yes, it's easy. Use Google Translate instead. It always shows both Chinese characters and pinyin as well... That's a BIG shortcoming of MS (or Bing) translators.

Most non-Chinese people need to have pinyin available if they wish to stand any chance of pronouncing Chinese correctly while "in the field" (in a Chinese speaking environment.)

Again, the solution is simple... use Google Translate instead!

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3571480/converting-chinese-to-pinyin

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