promeG/TinyPinyin

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

TinyPinyin is a fast, low-memory Java and Android library for converting Chinese characters to Pinyin without tones. It supports custom dictionaries for handling polyphonic characters and both simplified and traditional Chinese.

Use cases

• convert Chinese characters to pinyin in an Android app
• sort a contact list alphabetically by pinyin
• handle polyphonic Chinese characters with a custom dictionary
• replace Pinyin4J with a faster, lighter pinyin library
• check whether a character is Chinese
• convert simplified and traditional Chinese text to pinyin

When to choose

• you need tone-free uppercase pinyin on Java or Android
• memory footprint and conversion speed matter (4-16x faster than Pinyin4J, under 30KB)
• you need custom dictionaries for polyphonic characters or city names

When to avoid

• you need pinyin with tone marks or dialect romanizations
• you are not working on the JVM (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript)
• you need full Unicode transliteration beyond Chinese characters

Facets

library · maturity stable

nlp internationalization parser developer-tools jvm pinyin chinese-characters low-memory custom-dictionary text-conversion natural-language-processing localization android

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