How to check if a Chinese character is simplified or traditional in Python 3?

Question

I'm wondering is there any method to check a Chinese character is simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese in Python 3?

Answer 1

cjklib does not support Python 3. In Python 3, you can use hanzidentifier.

import hanzidentifier

print(hanzidentifier.has_chinese('Hello my name is John.'))
》 False

print(hanzidentifier.has_chinese('Country in Simplified: 国家. Country in Traditional: 國家.'))
》 True

print(hanzidentifier.is_simplified('John说：你好！'))
》 True

print(hanzidentifier.is_traditional('John說：你好！'))
》 True

Answer 2

You can use getCharacterVariants() in cjklib to query the character's simplified (S) and traditional (T) variants. As described in the Unihan database documentation, you can use this data to determine the classification for a character.