Libtabe is a C library which provides useful Chinese lexicons functions/routines that deals with fundamental elements such as pronunciation (BoPoMoFo), character frequency, word identification, and word frequency. It also comes with a large free word database, which is packaged as 'libtabe-db'. . This package provides a static library version of libtabe and header files that are necessary for development works using libtabe, and also some example codes. . For more information: http://libtabe.sourceforge.net/