Chinese-Japanese Place Names

Covers over 100,000 entries

Chinese and non-Chinese name types

Various data fields

Overview

CJKI’s Chinese-Japanese Database of Place Names (CJP) is the world’s largest Chinese-Japanese bidirectional database of place names, covering 100,000 entries in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

CJP includes various data fields such as readings in pinyin, zhuyin fuhao, hiragana and romanized readings, frequency rankings, semantic classification codes, locale codes, orthographic variants, and other useful information such as frequency statistics.

Japanese Place Name Variants

Practical Applications

CJP is useful in a variety of applications, such as:

Machine translation

Electronic dictionaries

Morphological analysis

Geographical data for maps

Information retrieval

Input method editors

Named-entity recognition

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