hanzilib 0.0.5

Python 3 Han character library for CJKV languages

Hanzilib

Hanzi 漢字 (Han characters) are used mainly in the Chinese language. The original repo (cjklib) has been dormant for more than a decade and was difficult to install for modern versions of Python. Hence, this fork is created as an attempt to port the entirety of (or most of) cjklib to modern Python.

hanzilib can be installed from PyPI

After installing, run hanzi build to build the database

Current state of the project

• Core ported to Python 3
• Core now uses SqlAlchemy 2.0
• There is still a LOT to update/document
• the legacy version EDICT is used instead of EDICT2, this will be changed shortly

Changes over the years

• kRSKangXi (data from 康熙字典) was removed from Unihan in favour of kRSUnicode, which is now the standard for getting radicals of Chinese characters (See: Unicode proposal L2/22-195)

• kRSKanwa (data from 大漢和辭典), kRSJapanese, kRSKorean were removed from Unihan (See: Unicode proposal L2/19-209)

Relevant changes in this project:

• CharacterKangxiRadical and CharacterKanwaRadical are combined to CharacterChineseRadical