Yonh

A simple lookup table for Guangyun.

Installation

yarn add yonh

or

npm install --save yonh

Usage

var yonh = require('yonh')
// lookup through chinese character or index
yonh.lookup(1)
yonh.lookup('東')
// list of fundamental category of rime in Guangyun
yonh.sieux()

yonh.lookup(index|hanzi)

Arguments

• index: number, an unique number indicating specific Sinograph
• hanzi: string, a Sinograph, Chinese character

Returns

One object or an array of objects with following form:

{
  index:     number,
  zih:       string,
  sieux:     string,
  chet:      string,
  initial:   Table.Initial,
  final:     Table.Final,
  tone:      string,
  roman:     string,
  kanon:     string,
  kuangx:    string,
  other_zih: {
    index: number,
    zih:   string
  }[]
}

• zih: a Sinogram, Chinese character
• sieux: a fundamental category of rime (小韻) in Guangyun
• chet: fanqie (反切), a technique to represent the pronounciation of a Chinese character by using two characters instead, in Guangyun
• initial: the initial of zih, see Table.Initial
• final: the final of zih, see Table.Final
• tone: 平聲, 上聲, 去聲 or 入聲, the category of the tone in Middle Chinese
• roman: a romanisation of zih, see Romanisation
• kanon: the pronounciation of zih in Kan-on system (漢音) in Japanese
• kuangx: the content of zih appeared in Guangyun

Table.Initial

{
  index: number,
  roman: string,
  sjeng: string
}

• roman: a romanisation of initial, see Romanisation
• sjeng: a Sinogram indicating the category of initial (聲母)

Table.Final

{
  index: number,
  roman: string,
  yonh:  string,
  tongx: number,
  ho:    string,
  sjep:  string
}

• roman: a romanisation of final, see Romanisation
• yonh: category of final (韻母), which is differnent from the rimes (韻) in Guangyun
• tongx: 1 to 4, indicating the level (等) of Chinese character, which is one of Medial (介音) description system in Middle Chinese
• ho: 開口, 合口 or 開合, another Medial description system in Middle Chinese (呼)
• sjep: a Sinogram indicating the category of the main vowel (攝)

yonh.sieux()

A list of fundamental category of rime (小韻).

Returns

{
  index:    number,
  sieux:    string,
  chet:     string,
  initial:  Table.Initial,
  final:    Table.Final,
  tone:     string,
  roman:    string,
  kanon:    string,
  kuangx:   string,
  list_zih: {
    index: number,
    zih:   string
  }[]
}

• index: an unique number
• sieux, chet, initial, final, tone, roman, kanon, kuangx: see yonh.lookup(index|hanzi)
• list_zih: a list of Sinograph with index and character

Romanisation

The romanisation for Middle Chinese is created and promoted by Polyhedron.

License

GPLv2

Sources

• Full Word List for Guangyun (廣韻全字表), powered by polyhedron and zgheng.
• XML Data for Guangyun (宋本廣韻データ)
• 韻典網