SC AND TC CHINESE PINYIN DATABASE


©2001-2009 The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.



The CJKI Chinese lexical database currently contains over four million Simplified Chinese (SC) and Traditional Chinese (TC) headwords covering general vocabulary, important technical terms, and proper nouns. Each lexeme is accompanied by a pinyin reading or readings, and various other attributes (see chinword.htm for details).

What is especially noteworthy is that the pinyin readings take into account the differences in pronunciation between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China, as shown in the table below. Even highly educated native Chinese speakers are often surprised to discover that such differences exist.

Our pinyin readings have been thoroughly proofread for accuracy, and explicitly indicate the neutral tone, which is often ignored by conventional dictionaries. This data, which can be provided in all the major transcription systems such as Yale, Wade-Giles, Zhuyin and IPA, is especially useful for speech technology applications, such as TTS (text-to-speech) software.


Some differences between Taiwan and PRC Pinyin
SC
SC Pinyin
TC
TC Pinyin
qi3
qi4
wei1
wei2
wei1
wei2
fa4
fa3
临期
lin2-qi1
臨期
lin2-qi2
期待
qi1-dai4
期待
qi2-dai4
企业
qi3-ye4
企業
qi4-ye4
显微镜
xian3-wei1-jing4
顯微鏡
xian3-wei2-jing4
微笑
wei1-xiao4
微笑
wei2-xiao4
理发
li3-fa4
理髮
li3-fa3
危险
wei1-xian3
危險
wei2-xian3


Sample of Pinyin for Simplified Chinese
HanziPOSPinyinRank
抱拢 V  bao4-long3 C
报录 NC  bao4-lu4 C
暴露 V  bao4-lu4 A
暴乱 NC   bao4-luan4 A
鲍螺 NC   bao4-luo2 C
抱锣 V   bao4-luo2 C
暴落 NC   bao4-luo4 C
豹略 NC   bao4-lve4 C
暴掠 V   bao4-lve4 C
报马 V   bao4-ma3 C
爆满 V   bao4-man3 C
豹猫 NC   bao4-mao1 C
暴民 NC   bao4-min2 C
报名 V   bao4-ming2 A
爆鸣 V   bao4-ming2 C
报命 NC   bao4-ming4 C
报幕 V   bao4-mu4 C