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NAME

Lingua::Han::PinYin - Retrieve the Mandarin(PinYin) of Chinese character(HanZi).

SYNOPSIS

  use Lingua::Han::PinYin;

  my $h2p = Lingua::Han::PinYin->new();

  # han2pinyin
  my $pinyin = $h2p->han2pinyin("我爱你"); # woaini
  my @result = $h2p->han2pinyin("爱你"); # @result = ('ai', 'ni');

DESCRIPTION

Convert Mandarin to its spell

RETURN VALUE

Usually, it returns its pinyin/spell.

if not (I mean it's not a Chinese character), returns the original word.

OPTION

tone => 1|0

default is 0. if 1, return kua4 instead of kua

    my $h2p = Lingua::Han::PinYin->new(tone => 1);
    print $h2p->han2pinyin("我"); #wo3
    my @result = $h2p->han2pinyin("爱你"); # @result = ('ai4', 'ni3');
unicode => 1|0

default is 0, if 1, return kuà instead of kua4 OR kua

    my $h2p = Lingua::Han::PinYin->new(unicode => 1);
    print $h2p->han2pinyin("叶问"); # yèwèn
capitalize => 1|0

default is 0, if 1, will capitalize each pinyin word

    my $h2p = Lingua::Han::PinYin->new(capitalize => 1);
    print $h2p->han2pinyin("汉语拼音"); # HanYuPinYin

METHODS

han2pinyin
    print $h2p->han2pinyin("林道"); #lin2dao4
    print $h2p->han2pinyin("I love 余瑞华 a"); #i love yuruihua a
han2pinyin1

for 1 chinese letter at a time, han2pinyin1 is faster

    # if you are sure to pass 1 Chinese letter at a time, han2pinyin1 is faster
    print $h2p->han2pinyin1("我"); # wo
gb2pinyin

if you are sure your encoding is GB2312, gb2pinyin is faster

    print $h2p->gb2pinyin("I love (汉语)拼―音 Ah"); # I love (hanyu)pin―yin Ah

SEE ALSO

Unicode::Unihan

AUTHORS

Fayland Lam, <fayland at gmail.com>

Tong Sun, <suntong at cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005-2012 *AUTHORS* All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html