zh-lx/pinyin-pro

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4689 stars · 392 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A high-performance Chinese-to-Pinyin conversion library for JavaScript/TypeScript. It converts Chinese characters to pinyin with tones, initials, finals, and first letters, and supports pinyin matching and Chinese word segmentation.

Use cases

• convert chinese characters to pinyin in javascript
• get pinyin with tones for hanzi text
• match pinyin against chinese text for fuzzy search
• extract pinyin initials and finals from chinese
• handle polyphonic chinese characters correctly
• segment chinese text into words
• generate html with pinyin annotations above chinese characters

When to choose

• you need accurate pinyin conversion including polyphonic characters and surnames
• you need to convert large volumes of Chinese text quickly
• you want pinyin-based fuzzy matching for search inputs
• you work in a JavaScript/TypeScript environment

When to avoid

• you need pinyin conversion outside the JS/TS ecosystem
• you need full Chinese NLP beyond pinyin and basic segmentation

Facets

library · maturity active

nlp parser search-engine developer-tools browser cross-platform pinyin chinese hanzi word-segmentation text-conversion natural-language-processing localization nodejs typescript

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