belerweb/pinyin4j

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

A Java library for converting Chinese characters to pinyin romanization, republished from SourceForge to Maven Central. It adds polyphonic character (多音字) recognition with a built-in dictionary of ~10,000 words and support for user-supplied external dictionaries.

Use cases

• convert chinese characters to pinyin in java
• get pinyin with tone marks from hanzi
• handle polyphonic chinese characters correctly
• sort or index chinese text alphabetically by pinyin
• build a chinese search or autocomplete feature with pinyin matching
• customize pinyin readings with an external dictionary

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, pure-Java pinyin conversion library on the JVM
• you need polyphonic character support and want to supply your own correction dictionary
• you want a dependency available directly from Maven Central

When to avoid

• you need pinyin conversion outside the Java/JVM ecosystem
• you need active development or modern features - the project is a maintained copy of an older library
• you need a license-guaranteed dependency - no license is specified in the repository

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

nlp parser internationalization developer-tools jvm pinyin chinese chinese-characters transliteration multi-pinyin maven-central natural-language-processing localization

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