afc163/fanyi

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1553 stars · 147 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Fanyi is a command-line Chinese-English translation tool that aggregates results from iciba, youdao, and an LLM (with a free built-in proxy, no API key required). It supports streaming LLM output with semantic coloring and can be invoked by AI agents via an Agent Skill.

Use cases

• translate a word from english to chinese in the terminal
• look up chinese word definitions from the command line
• get dictionary and LLM translations side by side
• quick CLI translator without configuring API keys
• let an AI agent translate text using fanyi
• connect a custom OpenAI-compatible model for translation

When to choose

• you need fast Chinese↔English word translation in a terminal
• you want dictionary-style results (definitions, examples, phonetics) plus LLM output
• you prefer a zero-config tool with a free built-in LLM proxy

When to avoid

• you need translation between language pairs other than Chinese and English
• you need a GUI or web-based translation interface
• you need document or batch file translation

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

nlp cli llm-inference developer-tools cli cross-platform translation chinese-english translator youdao iciba llm-powered agent-skill natural-language-processing command-line nodejs

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