Hanping Cantonese Dictionary

Hanping

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About this app

🇭🇰 A proper Cantonese dictionary — not Mandarin in disguise

This is a true Cantonese dictionary.
Most “Cantonese” apps on Google Play are actually Mandarin dictionaries with Cantonese pronunciation, which is probably not what you want.

If you’re looking for our Mandarin app, please see Hanping Chinese Dictionary.

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Main features:

★ Uses best-in-class Cantodict data as the base dictionary
★ Over 6,000 example sentences covering 3,000+ common words
★ Search by Hanzi / Chinese, Jyutping, Yale or English
★ Supports both Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters
★ Jyutping or Yale pronunciation throughout
★ Coloring by tone for Hanzi, Jyutping or Yale
★ Native-speaker audio for every Cantonese syllable

Character learning:

★ Built-in Chinese handwriting recognition
★ Stroke animations (800+ free, 8,700+ via optional in-app purchase)
★ Character decompositions for the top 10,000 characters
★ Over 1,000 phonetic groups covering 6,000+ characters

Study & vocabulary tools:

★ Starred words, word lists and search history
★ AnkiDroid flashcards support
 • Bulk export
 • Auto-export when a word is starred
 • Xiaomi users: see permission notes on our website
★ Enter long Chinese text to get instant romanization and an automatic vocabulary list
★ Custom searches using wildcards

Translation & integrations:

★ One-tap sentence translation (Google Translate app required)
★ Translations can be stored with starred words
★ Useful external links: Skritter, HanziCraft, Youdao, Google Translate
★ Seamless integration with Hanping Chinese Camera and Hanping Chinese Popup
★ Quick Settings tile to toggle clipboard monitoring on/off

Performance & usability:

★ Offline access to all core features (unless stated otherwise)
★ Live search — results update as you type
★ Progressive results — deeper searches load automatically as you scroll
★ Home screen widgets for reviewing favorite words
★ Night mode (black background)
★ Simple, fast and intuitive UI

Extras:

★ Backup / restore starred words, search history and preferences
★ Voice recognition (online only, supported devices only)
★ No ads!

Please report bugs or suggestions via email.

Permissions are explained in our FAQ:
https://hanpingchinese.com/faq/#permissions-dict

Ratings and reviews

I have had this for many years now and I do not regret purchasing this one bit. It is absolutely essential and useful for daily use. You got words, phrases, idioms and even slangs in this dictionary used by locals. I have had certain times where friends and colleagues would not be able to translate a word for me in English so I had them pronounce the word(s) using the mic feature in the app, and not surprisingly, the app manages to find exactly what they are trying to translate. If that does not work, they can use the in-app handwriting feature. It will detect the written words and tell you the romanizations of said word(s) (and for some words, even the steps for how it is written!), and you can even listen to how it is pronounced! I mean, it cannot get more convenient than this.

Best Cantonese dictionary I have ever used! I have been looking everywhere for this! I do admit that sometimes I have a hard time talking to my Chinese relatives but this makes up for it. The tones are accurate and easy to learn too. Do hope you can add new words. 👍 I offer my thanks for providing this app! Edit: I want to give even more stars if I could but 5 stars is the max lol.

This is the best cantonese dictionary i have come across. 100% worth the investment. Clean and simple to use. I love how you can write the character in incorrect stroke order and it will still recognise the word. It is great for people like me who are learning how to write the characters. Absolutely fantastic app. Thank you

What’s new

• Cleaner Chinese headword UI layout
• Under-the-hood improvements
• Fixed bug where some history words were incorrectly treated as sentences
• Bug fixes