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Export UNIHAN to Python, Data Package, CSV, JSON and YAML

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unihan-etl - ETL tool UNIHAN. Retrieve, extract, and transform the UNIHAN database into tabular or structured format. Load into python objects, JSON, CSV, and YAML. Part of the cihai project. See also: libUnihan.

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UNIHAN’s data is dispersed across multiple files in the format of:

U+3400      kCantonese      jau1
U+3400      kDefinition     (same as U+4E18 丘) hillock or mound
U+3400      kMandarin       qiū
U+3401      kCantonese      tim2
U+3401      kDefinition     to lick; to taste, a mat, bamboo bark
U+3401      kHanyuPinyin    10019.020:tiàn
U+3401      kMandarin       tiàn

Field types contain additional information to extract. For example, kHanyuPinyin, which maps Unicode codepoints to Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn, 10019.020:tiàn represents a minimal case. More:

U+5EFE      kHanyuPinyin    10513.110,10514.010,10514.020:gǒng
U+5364      kHanyuPinyin    10093.130:xī,lǔ 74609.020:lǔ,xī

The kHanyuPinyin field supports multiple entries, delimited by spaces. Within an entry, a “:” (colon) separates locations in the work and pinyin readings. Within these split values, a “,” (comma) can separate multiple values. This is just one of 90 fields contained in the database.

Tabular, “Flat” output

CSV (default), $ unihan-etl:

char,ucn,kCantonese,kDefinition,kHanyuPinyin,kMandarin
㐀,U+3400,jau1,(same as U+4E18 丘) hillock or mound,,qiū
㐁,U+3401,tim2,"to lick; to taste, a mat, bamboo bark",10019.020:tiàn,tiàn

With $ unihan-etl -F yaml --no-expand:

- char: 
  kCantonese: jau1
  kDefinition: (same as U+4E18 丘) hillock or mound
  kHanyuPinyin: null
  kMandarin: qiū
  ucn: U+3400
- char: 
  kCantonese: tim2
  kDefinition: to lick; to taste, a mat, bamboo bark
  kHanyuPinyin: 10019.020:tiàn
  kMandarin: tiàn
  ucn: U+3401

With $ unihan-etl -F json --no-expand:

[
  {
    "char": "㐀",
    "ucn": "U+3400",
    "kDefinition": "(same as U+4E18 丘) hillock or mound",
    "kCantonese": "jau1",
    "kHanyuPinyin": null,
    "kMandarin": "qiū"
  },
  {
    "char": "㐁",
    "ucn": "U+3401",
    "kDefinition": "to lick; to taste, a mat, bamboo bark",
    "kCantonese": "tim2",
    "kHanyuPinyin": "10019.020:tiàn",
    "kMandarin": "tiàn"
  }
]

“Structured” output

The UNIHAN database packs multiple values, nested values, and optional flags (such as apostrophes) into fields. unihan-etl carefully extracts these values in a uniform manner. Empty values are pruned.

Due to the nested nature of this output, its only supported on JSON, YAML, and python output.

JSON, $ unihan-etl -F json:

[
  {
    "char": "㐀",
    "ucn": "U+3400",
    "kDefinition": [
      "(same as U+4E18 丘) hillock or mound"
    ],
    "kCantonese": [
      "jau1"
    ],
    "kMandarin": {
      "zh-Hans": "qiū",
      "zh-Hant": "qiū"
    }
  },
  {
    "char": "㐁",
    "ucn": "U+3401",
    "kDefinition": [
      "to lick",
      "to taste, a mat, bamboo bark"
    ],
    "kCantonese": [
      "tim2"
    ],
    "kHanyuPinyin": [
      {
        "locations": [
          {
            "volume": 1,
            "page": 19,
            "character": 2,
            "virtual": 0
          }
        ],
        "readings": [
          "tiàn"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "kMandarin": {
      "zh-Hans": "tiàn",
      "zh-Hant": "tiàn"
    }
  }
 ]

YAML $ unihan-etl -F yaml:

- char: 
  kCantonese:
  - jau1
  kDefinition:
  - (same as U+4E18 丘) hillock or mound
  kMandarin:
    zh-Hans: qiū
    zh-Hant: qiū
  ucn: U+3400
- char: 
  kCantonese:
  - tim2
  kDefinition:
  - to lick
  - to taste, a mat, bamboo bark
  kHanyuPinyin:
  - locations:
    - character: 2
      page: 19
      virtual: 0
      volume: 1
    readings:
    - tiàn
  kMandarin:
    zh-Hans: tiàn
    zh-Hant: tiàn
  ucn: U+3401

Features

  • automatically downloads UNIHAN from the internet

  • strives for accuracy with the specifications described in UNIHAN’s database design

  • export to JSON, CSV and YAML (requires pyyaml) via -F

  • configurable to export specific fields via -f

  • accounts for encoding conflicts due to the Unicode-heavy content

  • designed as a technical proof for future CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) datasets

  • core component and dependency of cihai, a CJK library

  • data package support

  • expansion of multi-value delimited fields in YAML, JSON and python dictionaries

  • supports python 2.7, >= 3.5 and pypy

If you encounter a problem or have a question, please create an issue.

Usage

unihan-etl supports command line arguments. See unihan-etl CLI arguments for information on how you can specify custom columns, files, download URL’s and output destinations.

To download and build your own UNIHAN export:

$ pip install unihan-etl

To output CSV, the default format:

$ unihan-etl

To output JSON:

$ unihan-etl -F json

To output YAML:

$ pip install pyyaml
$ unihan-etl -F yaml

To only output the kDefinition field in a csv:

$ unihan-etl -f kDefinition

To output multiple fields, separate with spaces:

$ unihan-etl -f kCantonese kDefinition

To output to a custom file:

$ unihan-etl --destination ./exported.csv

To output to a custom file (templated file extension):

$ unihan-etl --destination ./exported.{ext}

See unihan-etl CLI arguments for advanced usage examples.

Structure

# cache dir (Unihan.zip is downloaded, contents extracted)
{XDG cache dir}/unihan_etl/

# output dir
{XDG data dir}/unihan_etl/
  unihan.json
  unihan.csv
  unihan.yaml   # (requires pyyaml)

# package dir
unihan_etl/
  process.py    # argparse, download, extract, transform UNIHAN's data
  constants.py  # immutable data vars (field to filename mappings, etc)
  expansion.py  # extracting details baked inside of fields
  _compat.py    # python 2/3 compatibility module
  util.py       # utility / helper functions

# test suite
tests/*

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