cantonese

Cantonese romanization. Cantonese to Latin conversion. Supports Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters.

Install via npm:

npm i cantonese

The Cantonese pronunciation data are from www.kawa.net. Please note that not all Chinese characters have corresponding pronunciations in Cantonese.

Usage

• Function toLatin ( a Chinese character ) returns Array

  Returns possible pronunciations of a Chinese character in Cantonese.

• Function fromLatin ( a Latin word ) returns Array

  Returns all Chinese characters with specific pronunciation in Cantonese.

Example

var cantonese = require('cantonese'); console.log(cantonese.toLatin('長')); // [ 'cheung', 'jeung' ] console.log(cantonese.fromLatin('cheung')); // [ '倡', '呛', '唱', '嗆', '场', '場', '墙', '娼', '戕', '抢', // '搶', '昌', '暢', '枪', '槍', '牆', '猖', '畅', '祥', '窗', // '翔', '肠', '腸', '蔷', '薔', '詳', '详', '長', '长' ]