Pinyin to character

Question

I'm trying to make a document with both English words, pinyin translation and chinese characters.

Is it possible to write the code in pinyin (or something similar) and get the corresponding characters when you compile?

Ex:

In code: jǔ -> In document: 举

or

In code: ju3 -> In document: 举

//Pinyin describes the English way of pronouncing a Chinese character. The character 举 sounds like "ju".

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Answer 1

This would not really be feasible, because there can be many characters with the same pronunciation (pinyin). So e.g. ma3 (or mǎ) may be 马 or 码 or 玛 ……

But perhaps you can do it the other way round: Type the Chinese characters, and the xpinyin package can annotate it with the pinyin. Here's an example from the documentation:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\usepackage{xpinyin}
\begin{document}
\xpinyin*{汉语拼音示例}
\end{document}

Sooner or later you'll come across characters that can have more than one pronunciation. In that case you can specify the pinyin explicitly:

\xpinyin*{小树\xpinyin{长}{zhang3}大了， 枝梢变\xpinyin{长}{chang2}了}