#Dictionaries

Gukhanmun uses dictionaries to look up the hangul readings of hanja. By default it ships with the bundled Standard Korean Dictionary (標準國語大辭典).

#Bundled Standard Korean Dictionary

The bundled dictionary is loaded automatically. No extra flags are needed for most Korean text.

To disable it — for example when you want to rely entirely on a custom dictionary — pass --no-stdict:

gukhanmun --no-stdict -d my-dict.gukfst input.txt

#Custom dictionaries

Supply one or more custom dictionaries with -d (or --dictionary). The flag can be repeated:

gukhanmun -d legal.gukfst input.txt
gukhanmun -d legal.gukfst -d names.gukcdb input.txt

Gukhanmun supports two binary dictionary formats:

Dictionaries are tried in the order they appear on the command line, with the bundled dictionary consulted last. The first match wins.

See the internals section for the full dictionary file format specification and instructions on building your own dictionaries with gukhanmun-mkdict.