# Chinese Character (Hanzi) Info Lookup

> Chinese Character (Hanzi) Info Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from chinese-culture.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-02).

Returns pinyin readings, English definition, stroke count, simplified/traditional forms, and common-usage flag for 1–10 Chinese characters.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://chinese-culture.x402tookit.com/hanzi-info?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/chinese-character-hanzi-info-lookup-7bac4cc1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_lkn_FbSCqjFhfGOB5E-GA

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability chinese-character-hanzi-info-lookup-7bac4cc1
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the Chinese characters 行 and 國 for me — I want to know their pinyin readings, English meanings, stroke counts, and whether they have different simplified or traditional forms?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need dictionary-style metadata (meaning, pronunciation, strokes, form variants) for individual Chinese characters. Prefer it over a general translation API when you specifically need per-character breakdown with pinyin and stroke data rather than sentence-level translation. Ideal for language learning apps, character annotation tools, or CJK text analysis pipelines.

## Known failure modes

- Non-Chinese characters submitted (e.g. Latin letters) — character may appear in notCovered array
- More than 10 characters sent — excess characters may be ignored or rejected
- Rare or obscure characters not in the dataset — returned in notCovered
- Network or payment failure — HTTP 402 or 5xx error
- Empty chars query param — request validation error

## How this service works

Look up Chinese characters: pinyin readings, English meaning, stroke count, simplified and traditional forms.

## Output

Returns a JSON array of character objects, each containing the character itself, its pinyin readings (as an array for polyphonic chars), English definition, stroke count, Unicode codepoint, simplified form, traditional form(s), and a common-usage boolean. Also includes a summary field and any characters not covered by the dataset.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "chars"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "chars": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "One to 10 Chinese characters, e.g. 行 or 国 or 漢"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "characters": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "char": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "common": {
          "type": [
           "boolean",
           "null"
          ]
         },
         "pinyin": {
          "type": [
           "array",
           "null"
          ],
          "items": {
           "type": "string"
          }
         },
         "strokes": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "number"
          ]
         },
         "codepoint": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "definition": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "simplified": {},
         "traditional": {
          "type": [
           "array",
           "null"
          ],
          "items": {
           "type": "string"
          }
         }
        }
       }
      },
      "disclai
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```

## More

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