def is_chinese(uchar): """ https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba/blob/master/jieba/__init__.py#L48 re.compile("([\u4E00-\u9FD5]+)", re.U) """ return u'\u4e00' <= uchar <= u'\u9fa5' def has_chinese(text): """ contains Chinese characters """ return any(is_chinese(ch) for ch in text)