By default, Jieba employs lazy loading to only build the trie once it is necessary. This takes 1-3 seconds once, after which it is not initialized again. If you want to initialize Jieba manually, you can call:
import jieba
jieba.initialize()
jieba.initialize() #(optional)
You can also specify the dictionary to use in this step (optional):
You can also specify the dictionary (not supported before version 0.28) :