pinyin-jyutping-sentence 0.5

Convert a Chinese sentence to Pinyin or Jyutping

Python module which converts a Chinese sentence from Simplified to Mandarin/Pinyin and Traditional to Cantonese/Jyutping, outputting diacritics (accented characters). I designed this library to create Mandarin and Cantonese flashcards.

Install

$ pip install pinyin_jyutping_sentence

Usage

>>> import pinyin_jyutping_sentence
>>> pinyin_jyutping_sentence.pinyin("提高口语")
'tígāo kǒuyǔ'
>>> pinyin_jyutping_sentence.jyutping("我出去攞野食")
'ngǒ cēothêoi ló jěsik'
# the tone_numbers argument can be used to disable diacritics
>>> pinyin_jyutping_sentence.pinyin("忘拿一些东西了", tone_numbers=True)
'wang4 na2 yi1xie1 dong1xi5 le5'
# the spaces argument adds a space between each syllable
>>> pinyin_jyutping_sentence.pinyin("忘拿一些东西了", tone_numbers=True, spaces=True)
'wang4 na2 yi1 xie1 dong1 xi5 le5'
>>> pinyin_jyutping_sentence.jyutping("有啲好貴", tone_numbers=True)
'jau5 di1 hou3 gwai3'

REST API

You can use the REST API at the following URL:

http://api.mandarincantonese.com/jyutping/我哋盪失咗
{"jyutping": "ngǒ déi dongsāt zó"}
http://api.mandarincantonese.com/pinyin/办所有的事情
{"pinyin": "bàn suǒyǒu de shìqíng"}

# calling the API from python
import requests
import json

url = "http://api.mandarincantonese.com/jyutping/我哋盪失咗"
response = requests.get(url)
print(json.loads(response.content)["jyutping"])
>>> ngǒ déi dongsāt zó

Google Sheets add-on

This library is available in the form of a Google Sheets Add-on. You can read about it here: https://medium.com/@lucw/converting-chinese-characters-to-pinyin-or-jyutping-on-google-sheets-eb12cca669cb

How it works

Uses the Jieba library (https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba) to tokenize the sentence. Then words are converted to Pinyin/Jyutping either as a whole, or character by character, using the CC-Canto dictionary (http://cantonese.org/about.html). The Jyutping diacritic conversion is not standard but originally described here: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?1,127274,129006