Support transliteration of Chinese characters (pinyin)

[rhdunn]

The Chinese character transliteration is based around the pinyin transliteration system. The data for this is in the Unicode Character Data files and the extraction of the pinyin transcriptions should be done by the ucd-tools project.

Specifically, transcriptions for Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese pronunciations of the Chinese characters should be supported.

In addition, the pinyin pronunciations should have two pronunciation modes:

1. phonetic/IPA -- an accurate IPA-based phonetic transcription;
2. Latin/English -- an English approximation of the Chinese.

To be complete, this requires improving the phoneme model to support tone markers.

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