---
name: "hanzim"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "hanzim"
version: "1:1.3-1.1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hanzim"
---

# hanzim(1)

Hanzi Master

## NAME

hanzim - Hanzi Master

## SYNOPSIS

**hanzim** \[*options*\]*...*

## DESCRIPTION

**hanzim** is a combination Chinese character learning aid and interactive dictionary.

This manual page briefly documents the **hanzim** command.  Expanded documentation may be found in  /usr/share/doc/hanzim/hanzim.doc.gz.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the 'hanzim.doc' file referred to above.

- **-small**

  Set up the display for a small (640x480) screen.

- **-medium**

  Set up the display for a medium (800x600) screen.

- **-large**

  Set up the display for a large (1024x768 and above) screen.  This is the default.

- **-simplified**

  Use Simplified Chinese characters at startup.  This is the default.

- **-traditional**

  Use Traditional Chinese characters at startup.

- **-pinyin**

  Force use of Pinyin pronunciation display even when using Traditional Chinese characters.  Default is to use Zhuyin Fuhao (Bopomofo) for Traditional, Pinyin for Simplified.

- **-bopomofo**

  Force use of Zhuyin Fuhao (Bopomofo) pronunciation display even when using Simplified Chinese characters.  Default is to use Pinyin for Simplified, Zhuyin Fuhao (Bopomofo) for Traditional.

- **-hidepron**

  Deactivate display of pinyin in the lower text panels, and make the overall application window smaller.  ('Ctrl-p' or 'Alt-p' will toggle this when running.)

- **-db *dir***

  Specifies the location of data files.  Default for Debian is environment variable HANZIM\_LIB, which in turn overrides the compiled-in default.

- **-buildDB**

  A special option to rebuild the binary compounds database.  This is run on install and should be re-run whenever the 'cidian' file is replaced (see hanzim.doc).  Currently it does not work in conjunction with the '-db' option; if you need to rebuild a database in a different directory, just remove the file 'hcompound.dat' there and then run the program with the '-db' option only and **NOT** '-buildDB'.

- **-verbose**

  Print various diagnostic and descriptive information on startup.

- **-quiet**

  Don't print any startup information.

- **-debug**

  Operate in interactive (tclsh prompt) mode; implies -verbose.

- **-help**

  Print out a summary of the command-line options.

## FILES

Requires the files "hanwin.tcl", "hanzim.fonts", "zidianf.gb", "zidianfl.b5", "cidianf.gb", "bushou.gb", "parts.gb" to be installed in an accessible directory specified by the -db command line option, the HANZIM\_LIB environment variable, or a compiled-in default, in that order of preference.

## SEE ALSO

**hanzim.doc**

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Roger So \<rogerso@sis.dhs.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system and subsequently modified by Adrian Robert \<arobert@cogsci.ucsd.edu\> (the original author) for more general distribution with hanzim.