Zidian
Zidian is a simple Chinese-English dictionary written in ruby. It only works under Unix systems, as it uses specific commands (sed, grep, less), at least for now.
Install
gem install zidian
Examples of use
Zidian.find(237) # returns the Word from the 237 id (line number in the file)
Zidian.find("culture") # returns all the words that contain "culture"
Zidian.find("文") # returns all the words that contain "文"
Zidian.find([653,34]) # returns the 2 words corresponding to the given ids
Zidian.find("wei2 cheng2") # returns the words corresponding to the given pinyin with tones
Zidian.find("wei cheng") # returns the words corresponding to the given pinyin without tones
Author: Bastien Vaucher Version: 0.1.1 Licence: MIT