zhon 2.1.1

Zhon provides constants used in Chinese text processing.

Zhon is a Python library that provides constants commonly used in Chinese text processing.

• Documentation: https://tsroten.github.io/zhon/

• GitHub: https://github.com/tsroten/zhon

• Support: https://github.com/tsroten/zhon/issues

• Free software: MIT license

About

Zhon’s constants can be used in Chinese text processing, for example:

• Find CJK characters in a string:

  >>> re.findall('[{}]'.format(zhon.hanzi.characters), 'I broke a plate: 我打破了一个盘子.')
  ['我', '打', '破', '了', '一', '个', '盘', '子']

• Validate Pinyin syllables, words, or sentences:

  >>> re.findall(zhon.pinyin.syllable, 'Yuànzi lǐ tíngzhe yí liàng chē.', re.I)
  ['Yuàn', 'zi', 'lǐ', 'tíng', 'zhe', 'yí', 'liàng', 'chē']
  
  >>> re.findall(zhon.pinyin.word, 'Yuànzi lǐ tíngzhe yí liàng chē.', re.I)
  ['Yuànzi', 'lǐ', 'tíngzhe', 'yí', 'liàng', 'chē']
  
  >>> re.findall(zhon.pinyin.sentence, 'Yuànzi lǐ tíngzhe yí liàng chē.', re.I)
  ['Yuànzi lǐ tíngzhe yí liàng chē.']

Features

Zhon includes the following commonly-used constants:

• CJK characters and radicals

• Chinese punctuation marks

• Chinese sentence regular expression pattern

• Pinyin vowels, consonants, lowercase, uppercase, and punctuation

• Pinyin syllable, word, and sentence regular expression patterns

• Zhuyin characters and marks

• Zhuyin syllable regular expression pattern

• CC-CEDICT characters

Getting Started

• Install Zhon

• Learn how to use Zhon

• Contribute documentation, code, or feedback