# pwxcoo/chinese-xinhua

:orange_book: 中华新华字典数据库。包括歇后语，成语，词语，汉字。

Repository: https://github.com/pwxcoo/chinese-xinhua
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chinese-xinhua
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: data, scraper, chinese-traditional, python3, chinese, chinese-characters, chinese-nlp, chinese-language, chinese-simplified, json-dataset, json, json-data
Last push: 2023-12-26T08:52:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3131, "days_push": 981, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11657, forks 2683 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:49.335794+00:00)

## What it is
An open Chinese Xinhua dictionary database distributed as JSON files, containing 14,032 xiehouyu (two-part allegorical sayings), 16,142 Chinese characters, 264,434 words, and 31,648 idioms. It also includes Python scraper scripts used to collect and clean the data.

## Use cases
- build an idiom chain game
- look up Chinese character pinyin, radicals, and stroke counts
- get definitions of Chinese idioms for an NLP project
- find xiehouyu riddles and answers
- source a Chinese word list for language learning apps
- corpus data for Chinese text analysis

## When to choose
- you need ready-made structured Chinese dictionary data in JSON
- you want pinyin, radical, and stroke information for characters
- you need idiom or xiehouyu datasets for games or NLP

## When to avoid
- you need a live dictionary API (the API feature was discontinued)
- you need constantly updated or commercially licensed data
- you need languages other than Chinese

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: maintenance
- function: data-science, nlp, parser
- domain: education
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: chinese-dictionary, idioms, xiehouyu, json-dataset, chinese-characters, open-data, natural-language-processing, chinese-language, datasets

## Member repositories
- pwxcoo/chinese-xinhua (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:49.335794+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:15:25.666962+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pwxcoo/chinese-xinhua (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:49.335794+00:00, sha c6b73d098c21)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.