jQuery hanzi2pinyin

fast hanzi to pinyin conversion

Demo, where you can customize hanzi2pinyin

Versions

jquery-hanzi2pinyin.all.js (~102KB)

contains simplified and traditional Chinese characters and pinyins with tones.

jquery-hanzi2pinyin.simp.js (~24KB)

contains only simplified Chinese characters and pinyins without tones (suitable for users in mainland China).

Examples

DOM

// Hanzi in $('#hanzi') will convert to pinyin and put to $('#pinyin')
$('#hanzi').hanzi2pinyin({target:'#pinyin'});

String

// This brings the same effect as above:
$('#pinyin').val($('#hanzi').val().hanzi2pinyin());

// HanZi
alert('汉字'.hanzi2pinyin({'case':'proper',hyphen:''}));

Options

target

selectors which will contain the results

hyphen

the hyphens between pinyins

'case'

can be lower, upper or proper (title) case

(Note: adding quotes around case is necessary for IE browsers)

punctuation_marks

you can remove, ignore the Chinese punctuation marks or replace them with corresponding English punctuation marks (?)

fullwidth_chars

you can remove, ignore the fullwidth characters or replace them with corresponding halfwidth characters (?)

tones

displays tones in simple (han-zi), standard (hàn-zì) or numeric (han4-zi4) mode