Introduction

Reads and converts between various romanization and non-romanization methods (known collectively for simplicity as 'pinyin') of Chinese language pronunciation.

What is pinyin?

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Methods

• PZPinyinReader->pzpinyin_tones_number_to_mark - converts Hanyu Pinyin tone numbers to tone marks

• PZPinyinReader->pzpinyin_tones_mark_to_number - converts Hanyu Pinyin tone marks to tone numbers

• PZPinyinReader->pzpinyin_pinyin_convert_phrase - converts several pinyin types to user specified pinyin type

• PZPinyinReader->pzpinyin_gethanzi_by_pinyin - returns Hanzi called by pinyin or numeral

• PZPinyinReader->pzpinyin_pinyin_transcribe_to_hanzi - transcribes each character to Hanzi

• PZPinyinReader->pzpinyin_hearpinyin - uses Quicktime methods to listen to Hanyu Pinyin ** EXPERIMENTAL **

Version History

0.8.4

• fixes  Issue 2 ,  Issue 91 

0.8.3

• fixes  Issue 65 ,  Issue 66 

0.8.2

• fixes  Issue 63 

0.8.1

• fixes  Issue 58 

0.8

• ** new API **
• fixes  Issue 50 ,  Issue 44 

0.3.3

• fixes  Issue 30 

0.3.2

• **meh**

0.3.1

• pinyin index file now called idx55.txt

0.3

• added num2mark ( ) and hearPinyin ( ) methods (moved from PZCEDICTReader)
• Quicktime methods now external JS library (quicktime_pinyin.js) available for download

0.2

• added num2Hanzi ( ) and trascribeHanzi ( ) methods

0.1.1

• removed version from PHP class file name (making autoloading easier)

0.1

• first draft