translate chinese hanzi to pinyin by python, inspired by flyerhzm's chinese_pinyin gem usage In [1]: from xpinyin import Pinyin In [2]: p = Pinyin() In [3]: p.get_pinyin(u"上海") Out[3]: 'shanghai' In [4]: p.get_initials(u"上") Out[4]: 'S' 请输入utf8编码汉字