genpyt(1)

genpyt1

Generate the pinyin lexicon

Usage

genpyt lexicon-file result-file log-file slm-file

Overview

genpyt is used to generate the PINYIN lexicon. It only works on zh_CN.UTF-8 locale.

Arguments

lexicon-file

Specify a dictionary file. It should be a line-based text file in utf-8 encoding . Each line looks like:

   CCC  id  [pinyin'pinyin'pinyin]*

A default dictionary file can be found at /usr/share/sunpinyin/dict.utf8.

result-file

The output binary PINYIN lexicon file. This lexicon contains a trie presenting the key tree of PINYIN. And all of the candidate words are sorted using the unigram in slm-file. This file can be used with sunpinyin input method engines.

log-file

Specify the file to where the log goes. The log-file can be seen as the human-readble presentation of the binary output file.

slm-file

The language model from which the unigram information are retrieved. Typically, the slm-file is generated by slmthread.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 7
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  8. Arch

Author

Originally written by Phill.Zhang <[email protected]>. Currently maintained by Kov.Chai <[email protected]>.

From sunpinyin 3.0.0rc2-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.