Harbin-rime

A custom Rime input schema with IPA-based spelling and letter-based tones for the Harbin dialect of Northeastern Mandarin Chinese.

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Features

• IPA-based spelling: Consonants and vowels are derived from IPA, each mapped to a single ASCII letter. A letter may be mapped to variant consonants or vowels.
• Letter tones: Tones are typed as letters, not digits.
• Three output modes: Simplified, Mainland Traditional, and Taiwan Traditional, switchable on the fly.
• Alias inputs: Convenient shorthand for some letter clusters.
• Word list: Based on luna_pinyin.

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Files

File	Description
chinois.schema.yaml	Rime schema definition
chinois.dict.yaml	Dictionary (Traditional Chinese)

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Install

1. Copy chinois.schema.yaml and chinois.dict.yaml into your Rime user directory:
   • Windows (Weasel): %APPDATA%\Rime
2. Redeploy Rime (right-click the tray icon → Deploy).
3. Press F4 and select Harbin.

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Input Design

Initials (consonants)

IPA	Letter	Example
m	m	ma
n	n	na
p	b	ba
t	d	da
k	g	ga
pʰ	p	pa
tʰ	t	ta
kʰ	k	ka
f	f	fa
s	s	sa
ʂ	sh	sha
ɕ	sh	shi
x	h	ha
ʐ	rh, r	rha
ʦ	z, dz	za
tʂ	j	ja
ʨ	j	ji
ʦʰ	ts, c	tsa
tʂʰ	ch	cha
ʨʰ	ch	chi
l	l	la

Finals (vowels)

IPA	Letter	Row
ɿ	y
ʅ	y
ɚ	er
a	a	Open mouth
ɤ	e	Open mouth
ɛ	eh, e	Open mouth
ai	ai	Open mouth
ei	ei	Open mouth
au	au	Open mouth
ou	ou	Open mouth
an	an	Open mouth
ən	en	Open mouth
aŋ	ang	Open mouth
əŋ	eng	Open mouth
i	i	Even teeth
ia	ia	Even teeth
iɛ	ieh	Even teeth
iau	iau	Even teeth
iou	iou	Even teeth
ian	ian	Even teeth
in	in	Even teeth
iaŋ	iang	Even teeth
iŋ	ing	Even teeth
u	u	Closed mouth
ua	ua	Closed mouth
uo	uo	Closed mouth
uai	uai	Closed mouth
uei	uei	Closed mouth
uan	uan	Closed mouth
uən	uen	Closed mouth
uaŋ	uang	Closed mouth
uəŋ	ueng	Closed mouth
uŋ	ung	Closed mouth
y	yu	Round mouth
yɛ	yueh	Round mouth
yan	yuan	Round mouth
yn	yun	Round mouth
yŋ	yung	Round mouth

Tones

Tone	Letter
1	v
2	w
3	x
5	q
0	v

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Alias Rules

The speller/algebra section defines the following shorthand rules.

Alias input	Equivalent to	Description
c	ts	c is an alias for ts
r	rh	r is an alias for rh
dz	z	dz is an alias for z
e	eh	e is an alias for eh
trailing tone dropped	any tone	Typing without the final tone letter shows all tones

Notes:

• ch always means ch. It is never interpreted as tsh.
• The tone-letter stripping rule means zyv, zyw, zyx, and zyq can all be typed as zy.

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Output Modes

Two switches in the F4 menu control the output:

simplified_mode	taiwan_mode	Output
1 (SIMP)	0 (TRCN)	Simplified (default)
0 (TRAD)	0 (TRCN)	Mainland Traditional
0 (TRAD)	1 (TRTW)	Taiwan Traditional
1 (SIMP)	1 (TRTW)	Simplified

The dictionary is stored in Traditional Chinese. Conversion is performed on the fly by OpenCC:

• t2s.json — Traditional → Simplified
• t2tw.json — Traditional → Taiwan Traditional

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License

MIT