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Name: chin-dict
Version: 0.1.4
Summary: Mandarin dictionary
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: Me
License: MIT
Description: ## Project Description
        
        Python library for manipulating Wikimedia Commons Character Info and CEDICT.
        
        ## Main features
        
        * Decompose Chinese characters into sub-components with tree-like structure
        * Character data such as radical, stroke number and traditional/simplified form
        * Word lookup for meaning and pronunciation
        
        ## Installation
        
        chin-dict is available on PyPI at https://pypi.org/project/chin-dict/
        
        	pip install chin-dict
        	
        ### Command line tools
        
        To make sure chin-dict is working properly, try looking up a word using the command line
        
        	chindict 漏
        	---------------------------------------------
        	Character: 漏
        	Pinyin: ['lou4']
        	Meaning: ['to leak', 'to divulge', 'to leave out by mistake', 'waterclock or hourglass (old)']
        
        
        To see the tree structure, use -t flag
        
        	chindict 漏 -t
         	-----------------------------
        	漏
        	├── 屚 (2)
        	│   ├── 尸 (3)
        	│   └── 雨 (4)
        	└── 氵 (1)
        
        To see the meaning of a component, pass its corresponding number to the -tm flag
        
        	chindict 漏 -tm 4
        	-----------------------------
        	雨 meaning(s):
        	['rain', 'CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]', 'to rain', '(of rain, snow etc) to fall', 'to precipitate', 'to wet']
        
        
        To lookup as a word instead of a character, use -w flag
        
        	chindict 钱 -w
        	-----------------------------
        	Simplified: 钱
        	Traditional: 錢
        	Pinyin: Qian2
        	Meaning: ['surname Qian']
        
        	Simplified: 钱
        	Traditional: 錢
        	Pinyin: qian2
        	Meaning: ['coin', 'money', 'CL:筆|笔[bi3]', 'unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两[liang3]']
        
        	
        To see the character's radical, use -r flag
        
        	chindict 钱 -r
        	-----------------------------
        	金
        
        To see the meaning of a character's radical, use -rm flag
        
        	chindict 钱 -rm
        	-----------------------------
        	['money', 'golden', 'highly respected', 'one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]']
        
        
        To see meanings of character's or characters' components, use -cm
        
        	chindict 你好 -cm
        	-----------------------------
        	你 meaning(s):
        	['you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])']
        
        	好 meaning(s):
        	['good', 'well', 'proper', 'good to', 'easy to', 'very', 'so', '(suffix indicating completion or readiness)', '(of two people) close', 'on intimate terms', '(after a personal pronoun) hello', 'to be fond of', 'to have a tendency to', 'to be prone to']
        
        
        ### Python demo
        
        	from chin_dict.chindict import ChinDict
        
        	cd = ChinDict()
        
        	char_result = cd.lookup_char("泪")
        
        	print()
        	print("泪 components:")
        	print()
        
        	for component in char_result.components:
        		print(component.character + ":", component.meaning)
        
        	# 氵: ['"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 没, 法, 流 etc', 'see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]']
        	# 目: ['eye', 'item', 'section', 'list', 'catalogue', 'table of contents', 'order (taxonomy)', 'goal', 'name', 'title']
        
        	print()
        
        	word_result = cd.lookup_word("发")
        
        	print("Translations for 发:")
        	print()
        	for word in word_result:
        		print(word)
        	
        	# Simplified: 发
        	# Traditional: 發
        	# Pinyin: fa1
        	# Meaning: ['to send out', "to show (one's feeling)", 'to issue', 'to develop', 'to make a bundle of money', 'classifier for gunshots (rounds)']
        
        	# Simplified: 发
        	# Traditional: 髮
        	# Pinyin: fa4
        	# Meaning: ['hair', 'Taiwan pr. [fa3]']
        
        
        
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