Command line frontend for the cihai CJK language library


Keywords
unihan, sqlalchemy, library, cjk, unicode, dictionary, dataset, encyclopedia, chinese, japanese, korean, languages, study, cli, terminal, shell, linux
License
MIT
Install
pip install cihai-cli==0.2.0

Documentation

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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You can test the unpublished version of cihai-cli before its released.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: 
kCantonese: hou2 hou3
kDefinition: good, excellent, fine; well
kHangul: 
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: 
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: 
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: 
kCantonese: syu1
kDefinition: library
kJapaneseOn: TOSHOKAN SHO
kMandarin: 
kTotalStrokes: '13'
ucn: U+5715
--------
char: 
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

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