cihai-cli 0.29.0

Command line frontend for the cihai CJK language library

cihai-cli ·

Command line interface to the cihai CJK-language library.

This project is under active development. Follow our progress and check back for updates!

Installation

$ pip install --user cihai-cli

Developmental releases

You can test the unpublished version of cihai-cli before its released.

• pip:

  $ pip install --user --upgrade --pre cihai-cli
  

• pipx:

  $ pipx install --suffix=@next cihai-cli --pip-args '\--pre' --include-deps --force
  

  Then use cihai@next info 好.

For more information see developmental releases

Character lookup

See CLI in the documentation for full usage information.

$ cihai info 好

char: 好
kCantonese: hou2 hou3
kDefinition: good, excellent, fine; well
kHangul: 호
kJapaneseOn: KOU
kKorean: HO
kMandarin: hǎo
kTang: "*xɑ̀u *xɑ̌u"
kTotalStrokes: "6"
ucn: U+597D

Retrieve all character information (including book indices):

$ cihai info 好 -a

char: 好
kCangjie: VND
kCantonese: hou2 hou3
kCihaiT: "378.103"
kDefinition: good, excellent, fine; well
kFenn: 552A
kFourCornerCode: "4744.7"
kFrequency: "1"
kGradeLevel: "1"
kHKGlyph: 0871
kHangul: 호
kHanyuPinlu: hǎo(6060) hāo(142) hào(115)
kHanyuPinyin: 21028.010:hǎo,hào
kJapaneseKun: KONOMU SUKU YOI
kJapaneseOn: KOU
kKorean: HO
kMandarin: hǎo
kPhonetic: "481"
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6: C+1975+38.3.3 C+1975+39.3.3
kRSKangXi: "38.3"
kTang: "*xɑ̀u *xɑ̌u"
kTotalStrokes: "6"
kVietnamese: háo
kXHC1983: 0445.030:hǎo 0448.030:hào
ucn: U+597D

Reverse lookup

$ cihai reverse library

char: 圕
kCantonese: syu1
kDefinition: library
kJapaneseOn: TOSHOKAN SHO
kMandarin: tú
kTotalStrokes: '13'
ucn: U+5715
--------
char: 嫏
kCantonese: long4
kDefinition: the place where the supreme stores his books; library
kJapaneseOn: ROU
kMandarin: láng
kTotalStrokes: '11'
ucn: U+5ACF
--------

Developing

$ git clone https://github.com/cihai/cihai-cli.git

$ cd cihai-cli

Bootstrap your environment and learn more about contributing. We use the same conventions / tools across all cihai projects: pytest, sphinx, mypy, ruff, tmuxp, and file watcher helpers (e.g. entr(1)).

Python versions

• Final Python 3.7 version: 0.16.0

Quick links

• Quickstart
• Python API
• 2017 roadmap
• Python support: >= 3.8, pypy
• Source: https://github.com/cihai/cihai-cli
• Docs: https://cihai-cli.git-pull.com
• Changelog: https://cihai-cli.git-pull.com/history.html
• API: https://cihai-cli.git-pull.com/api.html
• Issues: https://github.com/cihai/cihai-cli/issues
• Test coverage https://codecov.io/gh/cihai/cihai-cli
• pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cihai-cli
• OpenHub: https://www.openhub.net/p/cihai-cli
• License: MIT