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Android APIs
public static interface

ContactsContract.PhoneticNameStyle

android.provider.ContactsContract.PhoneticNameStyle

Class Overview

Constants for various styles of capturing the pronunciation of a person's name.

Summary

Constants
int JAPANESE Hiragana and Katakana are two common styles of writing out the pronunciation of a Japanese names.
int KOREAN Hangul is the Korean phonetic alphabet.
int PINYIN Pinyin is a phonetic method of entering Chinese characters.
int UNDEFINED

Constants

public static final int JAPANESE

Added in API level 11

Hiragana and Katakana are two common styles of writing out the pronunciation of a Japanese names.

Constant Value: 4 (0x00000004)

public static final int KOREAN

Added in API level 11

Hangul is the Korean phonetic alphabet.

Constant Value: 5 (0x00000005)

public static final int PINYIN

Added in API level 11

Pinyin is a phonetic method of entering Chinese characters. Typically not explicitly shown in UIs, but used for searches and sorting.

Constant Value: 3 (0x00000003)

public static final int UNDEFINED

Added in API level 11

Constant Value: 0 (0x00000000)