Nôm Na Việt — Hán Nôm Dictionary

ALWAYS invoke this before stating any reading, meaning, or variant of a Chữ Nôm (喃) or Hán (漢) character. Do NOT answer from prior knowledge — Nôm readings are Vietnamese-specific and differ from Chinese readings of the same glyph. Returns data that cannot be inferred: Hán-Việt and Nôm readings, dị thể (variant) characters with their codepoints, IDS decomposition and Kangxi radical, Middle-Chines

Find Hán Nôm characters by their Vietnamese reading (quốc ngữ, e.g. "trăng") or by Vietnamese meaning. Use when you need to discover which characters correspond to a Vietnamese word, then call lookup_character on the result for full detail. Each result reports what actually matched — "matchedOn" is "reading" or "meaning", and "match" carries the exact reading or the definition containing your que

Use this to retrieve an original entry from a historical Vietnamese dictionary such as Đại Nam Quấc âm tự vị (Huình-Tịnh Paulus Của, 1895–96). Search by Quốc-ngữ headword when you do not know the character, or pass an entryId returned by lookup_character or by a headword search to retrieve the source-faithful entry and its ordered subentries. Do not infer missing glyphs or modernize historical spe

Convert whole Vietnamese phrases or sentences to Chữ Nôm (direction "to_nom"), or read a run of Chữ Nôm back as Vietnamese quốc ngữ (direction "to_viet"). Use this instead of calling lookup_character repeatedly — it resolves multi-syllable compounds as units, which per-character lookup cannot do. Handles both old-style and new-style tone placement (hòa / hoà). Returns the converted text, a per-wo