Ting

Ting can convert between various systems for phonetically writing Mandarin Chinese. It can also handle various representation of tones, so it can be used to convert pinyin with numbers to pinyin with tones.

Hanyu Pinyin, Bopomofo, Wade-Giles, Tongyong Pinyin and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are supported.

INSTALL

SYNOPSIS

To parse your strings create a Reader object. Ting.reader() takes two parameters : the transliteration format, and the way that tones are represented.

To some extent these can be mixed and matched.

To generate pinyin/wade-giles/etc. create a Writer object. Use Ting.writer()

Formats

Tones

Examples

Parse Hanyu Pinyin

““ruby require 'ting'

reader = Ting.reader(:hanyu, :numbers) reader.( “wo3 ai4 ni3” ) # => [<Ting::Syllable <initial=Empty, final=Uo, tone=3>>, # <Ting::Syllable <initial=Empty, final=Ai, tone=4>>, # <Ting::Syllable <initial=Ne, final=I, tone=3>>] ““

Generate Bopomofo

ruby zhuyin = Ting.writer(:zhuyin, :marks) zhuyin.(reader.("wo3 ai4 ni3")) # => "ㄨㄛˇ ㄞˋ ㄋㄧˇ"

Generate Wade-Giles

ruby wadegiles = Ting.writer(:wadegiles, :supernum) wadegiles.(reader.("qing2 kuang4 ru2 he2")) # => "ch`ing² k`uang⁴ ju² ho²"

Generate IPA

ruby ipa = Ting.writer.new(:ipa, :ipa) ipa.(reader.("you3 peng2 zi4 yuan2 fang1 lai2")) # => "iou˧˩˧ pʰeŋ˧˥ ts˥˩ yɛn˧˥ faŋ˥˥ lai˧˥"

Since this is such a common use case, a convenience method exists to add diacritics to pinyin.

ruby Ting.pretty_tones "wo3 ai4 ni3" # => "wǒ ài nǐ"

Note that syllables need to be separated by spaces, feeding “peng2you3” to the parser does not work. The Ting.pretty_tones(string) method does handle these things a bit more gracefully.

If you need to parse input that does not conform, consider using a regexp to scan for valid syllables, then feed the syllables to the parser one by one. Have a look at Ting.pretty_tones for an example of how to do this, but note that it does not support special cases like erhua (wanr2 = wan2 er) or non-standard Pinyin syllables like 嗯/“ń” or 呣/“ḿ” (which appear in the official Unicode data and some textbooks).

ting_table

The ting_table script will spit out a CSV table of all syllables and formats Ting knows about. Useful if you want to do conversion in other languages.

REQUIREMENTS

LICENSE

Copyright © 2007-2017, Arne Brasseur. (www.arnebrasseur.net)

Available as Free Software under the GPLv3 License, see LICENSE.txt for details