Ubiquity command to utilize http://json-zh.appspot.com service and get pinyin reading for Chinese characters.

GetPinyin.js

var noun_type_destination = new CmdUtils.NounType( "destination", ['clipboard', 'selected text', 'displayed message'] );

CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
  name: "get-pinyin",
  takes: {"Hanzi to read as PinYin": noun_arb_text},
  
  preview: function(pblock, hanzi) {
      searchHanzi = jQuery.trim(hanzi.text);
      if (searchHanzi.length < 1) {
          pblock.innerHTML = "Gets the <b>Pinyin reading</b> of selected Chinese characters.";
          return;
      }
      pblock.innerHTML = "Gets the <b>Pinyin reading</b> of " + hanzi.text + ".";
  },
  modifiers: {to: noun_type_destination},
  
  homepage: "http://json-zh.appspot.com/",
  author: { name: "Emanuel Carnevale", email: "me AT myName myFamilyName DOT com"},
  description: "Gets the most common pinyin reading of the selected Chinese ideograms (hanzi) connecting to http://json-zh.appspot.com",
  help: "You can specify where to send the result, to a displayed message, to the clipboard or to the selected Chinese Ideogram thus replacing it.",
  execute: function(hanzi, destination) {
    var baseURL = "http://json-zh.appspot.com/pinyin";
    var params = {hanzi: hanzi.text};

    jQuery.get(baseURL,params,function(data){
        try {
            var pinyinText = Utils.decodeJson(data);
            
        } catch(e) {
            displayMessage("Errore connecting to http://json-zh.appspot.com/!");
        } finally {
            var toDestination = destination.to.text || "displayed message";
            switch (toDestination){
                case "clipboard":
                CmdUtils.copyToClipboard(pinyinText.pinyin);
                displayMessage(pinyinText.pinyin + " successfully copied to the clipboard");
                break;
                case "selected text":
                CmdUtils.setSelection(pinyinText.pinyin);
                break;
                case "displayed message":
                displayMessage(pinyinText.pinyin);
                break;
                default : displayMessage(pinyinText.pinyin);
            }
        }
    })
  }
})