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I need to convert Chinese characters into pinyin and need an official document for that conversion.
There are some libraries around as mentioned by previous posts such as Convert chinese characters to hanyu pinyin .
However, I need an “official standard” more than an “available library”. Where could I find such a document? Is there any standard / document / book released by China government for how shall Chinese characters be pronounced/marked by pinyin?
Appreciate your kind help.
Taiwan Ministry of Education has a site listing all the variants of the Chinese character. http://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/eng.htm
In it, they also specified the pronunciation of the characters. However, the pronunciation used is Zhuyin (popular in Taiwan) and not Hanyu Pinyin (popular in Mainland China).
You could use the list on Wikipedia to map Zhuyin to Hanyu Pinyin http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3%E5%B0%8D%E7%85%A7%E8%A1%A8
For example, the character 井 http://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/yitia/fra/fra00052.htm has the Zhuyin of ㄐ｜ㄥˇ, which you then look up ㄐ｜ㄥ = jing. Then combine with the tone and you get jǐng.
I don’t know of any official standard in Mainland China or in any other Chinese speaking countries.