This is a script I made for myself to turn a csv file of Chinese characters into Anki flash cards, with English translations and pinyin. Note that it only works by default with simplified characters.
Requires the package genanki to create the Anki deck.
English translations and pinyin are from CC-CEDICT
Run python build_db.py, which will load the CC-CEDICT dictionary into a dictionary stored as a pickle file for Python to read in on subsequent runs.
To enable traditional character support, just modify line 67 in build_db.py, which builds out the dictionary to use trad instead of simp.
Create a csv file with the Chinese characters you want to translate, one word per row, with no title. By default, the script looks for a words.csv but you can change this.
Run python main.py.
This will then create a deck.apkg file which you can put into Anki. The note template can also be modified, including custom CSS.
The translated words are then pickled and stored in a .cache.pickle file, so subsequent runs of the script will only translate additional words added to the csv file.
(Note that this code is brittle and if you end up deleting earlier words in the csv file, the script won't parse future words correctly. The easiest way to start all over is to just delete the .cache.pickle file, and the script will automatically rebuild the Anki deck from scratch.)