Tools

This page is dedicated to various tools this website uses, presenting them in isolation for ease of use. Other websites with useful components will also be linked.

Mandarin phoneticisation

Mandarin has among the most amount of phoneticisations, which can be a bit overwhelming for some. This uses dohliam's pinyin-rb to display 13 of them.

Cantonese phoneticisation

Character data extractor

This keeps the old Cangjie lookup behaviour, but also lets you pull other stored character data in bulk. Paste one character, a codepoint like U+8BF4, or a whole sentence to extract one row per unique Han character.

You can use this for flashcard enrichment: definitions, dictionary entries, and readings can be previewed in-page or downloaded as CSV.

Anki deck enricher

Paste a tab-separated Anki export here and enrich one field based on the characters found in another. This is useful when you want each note to carry Kangxi, Shuowen, Guangyun, or reading data as HTML for later AI prompting or flashcard study.

Field to read characters from: Field to write enrichment into:

append to existing target field replace target field entirely

Preview rows: Start preview at row: Preview mode:

Data to append

Kangxi definition Unicode definition Shuowen entry Guangyun definition Guangyun fanqie Guangyun rhyme Guangyun tone Mandarin Cantonese Japanese on Korean (Yale) Korean (Hangul) Vietnamese

Lunar calendar date converter

The Chinese lunar calendar uses the GanZhi system for formatting dates. This uses a gem by elct9620 to easily convert between the Gregorian and Chinese dating systems.

Numeral converter

A simple mapper for Chinese numerals, accounting for some of the outliers and variant forms that occasionally pop up. It isn't perfect but will work for most things. I used this to produce a more robust Lunar calendar representation that you see on the site header!