unihan-etl search¶

Look up character data in the UNIHAN database.

Command¶

Search and look up UNIHAN characters.

Look up character data by character, UCN (U+XXXX), or hex codepoint. Requires UNIHAN data to be downloaded (will download if not cached).

Usage¶

usage: unihan-etl search [-h] [-f [FIELDS ...]] [--json | --ndjson] char

Examples¶

$ unihan-etl search 好

$ unihan-etl search U+597D

$ unihan-etl search 597D

Output Format¶

$ unihan-etl search 好 --json

$ unihan-etl search 好 --ndjson

Field Filtering¶

$ unihan-etl search 好 -f kDefinition kMandarin

Positional Arguments¶

char¶

Character, UCN (U+XXXX), or hex codepoint to look up.

Default: None
Required

Options¶

-f, --fields¶

Fields to include in output. Shows all non-empty fields by default.

Default: None

--json¶

Output as JSON

Default: False

--ndjson¶

Output as newline-delimited JSON (one record per line)

Default: False

Examples¶

Look up a character by its form:

$ unihan-etl search 一

Look up by UCN:

$ unihan-etl search U+4E00

Look up by hex codepoint:

$ unihan-etl search 4E00

Get JSON output for LLM consumption:

$ unihan-etl search 一 --json

Filter to specific fields:

$ unihan-etl search 一 -f kDefinition kMandarin