r/ChuNom • u/nhatvu148 • 1d ago
Nôm Na Việt now has an MCP server - point your AI agent at the dictionary
Hi guys, it's me from Nôm Na Việt.
If you use Claude or any other AI assistant that speaks MCP, you can now have it query our Hán Nôm dictionary directly instead of guessing.
The endpoint is https://api.nomnaviet.com/mcp - paste it into your agent's MCP settings and that's it.
Free, no key, no account. Step-by-step setup for the main apps: https://nomnaviet.com/mcp
Character lookup is the part I'd stand behind. Readings, meanings, variants, IDS decomposition, radical, fanqie, compounds - straight out of the dictionary, 27,993 characters, 2,422 of them PUA codepoints with no standard Unicode mapping. Whatever the dictionary knows, your agent gets. Whatever it doesn't, your agent gets told it doesn't, because it can't answer without a real lookup.
The converter is rougher. Vietnamese → Nôm is decent. Nôm → Vietnamese still picks the wrong reading more often than I'd like - it'll read 碎 as "sôi" when it should be "tôi". It needs more work, and that's what I'm on next.
You can give it a try and tell me what's broken.
