Chinese Phonetic Database

Over four million entries

Precise PRC and Taiwan pronunciation differences

Ideal for speech technology

Overview

The CJKI Chinese Phonological Database (CPD) currently contains over four million Simplified Chinese (SC) and Traditional Chinese (TC) headwords covering general vocabulary, important technical terms, and proper nouns. Thoroughly proofread for accuracy, each headword is accompanied by pinyin or zhuyin and shows Taiwan/PRC differences, e.g. 危险 is wēixiǎn for SC, but wéixiǎn for TC.

SC-TC Pinyin Differences

SCSC PinyinTCTC Pinyin
临期línqī臨期línqí
企业qǐyè企業qìyè
倬雄zhuōxióng倬雄zhuóxióng
wēiwéi
危险wēixiǎn危險wéixiǎn
埒城lièchéng埒城lèchéng
夕日xīrì夕日xìrì
大期dàqī大期dàqí
巍八郎wēibāláng巍八郎wéibāláng
帆柱fānzhù帆柱fánzhù
wēiwéi
微笑wēixiào微笑wéixiào
拙夫zhuōfū拙夫zhuófū
无着wúzhuó無著wúzhuó
昔日xīrì昔日xírì
显微镜xiǎnwēijìng顯微鏡xiǎnwéijìng
期待qīdài期待qídài
池穴chíxué池穴chíxuè
理发lǐfà理髮lǐfǎ
隆巴妮lóngbānī隆巴妮lóngbāní
麦卡锡màikǎxī麥卡錫màikǎxí

Practical Applications

CPD can be used in a variety of applications such as:

Input method editors

Transcription systems

Pedagogical applications

Text-to-speech

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