Unicode lookup for CJK ideographs is not useful

[Max Rabkin]

<Taejo> tibid: unicode 日
<tibid> Taejo: '日' is CJK Unified Ideograph-65E5 (U+65E5), a letter with left-to-right directionality

The names of Han characters aren't very useful in telling you what character you're working with. Something like this might be better:

'日' is CJK Unified Ideograph-65E5 (U+65E5), a letter with left-to-right directionality, meaning "sun; day; daytime". Readings: rì (Pinyin), il/일 (Korean), nichi or jitsu (Japanese On) or hi, ka or hibi (Japanese Kun).

The Unihan database also contains variant characters (incl. simplified/traditional) and pronunciations in Vietnamese, Cantonese and reconstructed Tang. These are probably less useful in general, but some characters are only used in Cantonese.