chinese-utils

Utility tools for working with simplified/traditional Chinese characters and Pinyin in Node.js.

Installation

npm i chinese-utils --save

Usage

pinyinToAlphabet()

ChineseUtils.pinyinToAlphabet(string)

Removes the tone marks from a Pinyin string and keeps the original case of the Pinyin and any spaces/whitespace. This is also known as accent folding.

Returns a string with just plain English and no tone marks (keeps the original case of the Pinyin).

Example:

const ChineseUtils = require('chinese-utils');
 
const examplePinyin = ChineseUtils.pinyinToAlphabet('wǒ mèi mei');
 
console.log(examplePinyin); // logs 'wo mei mei'