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google/budou

Budou is an automatic organizer tool for beautiful line breaking in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/google/budou · Python · Apache-2.0 (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100

Flags: archived

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3649
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1242
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1183 stars · 53 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Budou is a Python library and CLI tool that automatically organizes CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) text into semantically meaningful chunks wrapped in non-breaking HTML markup for beautiful, legible line breaking on the web. It uses word segmenters and part-of-speech tagging to produce chunks that CSS inline-block styling keeps intact at line ends.

Use cases

  • prevent Japanese text from breaking mid-word on my website
  • improve CJK typography and line breaks in HTML
  • wrap Chinese sentences in semantic chunks for responsive web design
  • process Japanese text into inline-block spans via CLI
  • fix ugly line breaks in Korean web content

When to choose

  • you need quality CJK line breaking on a Python-based website or CMS
  • you want automatic HTML chunking with configurable segmenters like MeCab

When to avoid

  • starting a new project - use its successor BudouX instead
  • you need non-HTML output or non-Python environments

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

nlp parser templating web-development python cli cjk line-breaking typography word-segmentation japanese chinese korean natural-language-processing localization web-server

2 sources

Member repositories

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google/budoumain10

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