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/