Split Chinese & Japanese

Split Chinese or Japanese text into words.

This API is a tiny wrapper around MandarinSpot and ichi.moe sites to allow getting split words in JSON.

Please do not abuse this API, MandarinSpot or ichi.moe.

Please also note that there is an official JS library you can use client side https://mandarinspot.com/api.

yarn install
yarn dev

Example usage:

let response = await fetch("http://localhost:3000/?text=你好吗");

let data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Language support

• Chinese
• Japanese

Pass in a lang query param to specify the language.

For example:

http://localhost:3000/?text=你好吗&lang=chinese for Chinese (default if not specified)

or

http://localhost:3000/?text=私は猫である&lang=japanese for Japanese

Usage

The idea was to run this server, say with ngrok, and then add a custom google sheets function to run it.

function splitChinese(text) {
  if (!text || text === '') {
    return '';
  }

  const encodedText = encodeURIComponent(text);
  const response = UrlFetchApp.fetch('https://7973-78-70-155-234.ngrok-free.app/?text=' + encodedText);
  const jsonText = response.getContentText()
  const data = JSON.parse(jsonText);
  return data.segmented;
}

This can then be used in google sheets like this: