# Chinese Simplified↔Traditional Character Converter

> Chinese Simplified↔Traditional Character Converter 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).

Converts Chinese text between simplified and traditional character scripts, reporting any ambiguous one-to-many character mappings.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://chinese-culture.x402tookit.com/simp-trad?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-simplified-traditional-character-converter-642a924b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QdACaESEo_0dS20Hs5DNn

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-simplified-traditional-character-converter-642a924b
```

Example prompt: Convert this simplified Chinese text to traditional characters and let me know if any characters are ambiguous: '我爱北京天安门，天安门上太阳升。'

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically need to convert Chinese text between simplified and traditional scripts and want explicit reporting of ambiguous characters (one-to-many mappings). Prefer it over generic translation APIs when the goal is script conversion only (not language translation), and when knowing which characters changed or are ambiguous is important for quality assurance or localization workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'text' or 'to' query parameter returns an error
- Invalid value for 'to' parameter (not 'simplified' or 'traditional') causes a bad request
- Text exceeding 500 characters may be rejected or truncated
- Non-Chinese/non-Han input characters are passed through unchanged and may appear in unknownHan list
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance blocks the request

## How this service works

Convert Chinese text between simplified and traditional characters; reports ambiguous one-to-many characters.

## Output

Returns the converted Chinese text in the requested script (simplified or traditional), the source and target script labels, the number of characters changed, a list of ambiguous characters (those with one-to-many mappings), any unknown Han characters, a degraded flag if the conversion is partial, and a summary describing the conversion result.

## 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": [
      "text",
      "to"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "to": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "simplified or traditional"
      },
      "text": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Chinese text, up to 500 characters"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "text": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "target": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "ambiguous": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "notChecked": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "unknownHan": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "charactersChanged": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/chinese-simplified-traditional-character-converter-642a924b/health.json
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