A delightfully refreshing Discord bot for searching and translating Korean.
Korean dictionary bot. Searches National Institute of Korean Language's Korean-English Learners' Dictionary (한국어기초사전), translates Korean using DeepL, and resources including Wiktionary, Google Translate, and romanization.
CHA-KO is the Korean Discord bot that delivers language and dictionary information to students, travelers, and kpop/kdrama enthusiasts alike.
Korean, with its unique alphabet, is a fascinating language that draws learners from around the world. However, the journey to fluency can be challenging. Learners often struggle with understanding the language's structure, pronunciation, Hanja, and the cultural nuances inherent to Korean.
CHA-KO is a unified turnkey solution for searching dictionary sources, displaying Hangul Romanization, word definitions/origins, and links to relevant external sources.
CHA-KO uses data from public sources including the National Institute of Korean Language's Korean-English Basic Learners' Dictionary.
- Search dictionary entries in Korean (Hangul, Hanja)
- Search dictionary entries in English
- Pronunciation in Hangul and Romanization
- Word origins in Hanja
- Parts of speech
This bot uses slash commands.
/kodict: Searches Korean dictionary/kosearch: Searches Korean translation services
This bot also supports a ping as a prefix: @Cha for Korean
For example: @Cha for Korean kodict 신문
Clone or download this project.
Copy .env.example to .env, then:
- Add your bot's token to
dpy_token - Add your bot's User ID to
dpy_user_id krdict_api_key: Optionaldeepl_api_key: Optional
The bot prefix is @ping or Slash command.
Setup a venv using Python >=3.9 and install requirements
python3.9 -m venv ~/dpyenv
source ~/dpyenv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
In the future, you can run your bot anytime using
source ~/dpyenv/bin/activate
python3 -m main