cantonese

cantonese
=========

Cantonese romanization. Cantonese to Latin conversion.
Supports Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters.

Install via npm:

npm i cantonese

The Cantonese pronunciation data are from www.kawa.net.
Please note that not all Chinese characters have corresponding
pronunciations in Cantonese.

Usage
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* Function toLatin ( a Chinese character ) returns Array

Returns possible pronunciations of a Chinese character in Cantonese.

* Function fromLatin ( a Latin word ) returns Array

Returns all Chinese characters with specific pronunciation in Cantonese.

Example
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var cantonese = require('cantonese');
console.log(cantonese.toLatin('長')); // [ 'cheung', 'jeung' ]
console.log(cantonese.fromLatin('cheung'));
// [ '倡', '呛', '唱', '嗆', '场', '場', '墙', '娼', '戕', '抢',
// '搶', '昌', '暢', '枪', '槍', '牆', '猖', '畅', '祥', '窗',
// '翔', '肠', '腸', '蔷', '薔', '詳', '详', '長', '长' ]