Cantonese Guru

Xamisoft

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About this app

Learn Cantonese the smart way — structured learning, character writing, tone training, and a comprehensive dictionary in one powerful app.
Whether you’re a complete beginner or aiming for advanced fluency (A1 to C2), Cantonese Guru is your all-in-one companion for learning Cantonese effectively and sustainably.

Perfect both as a learning app and as a daily Cantonese reference tool, Cantonese Guru helps you build real, lasting skills, with full support for traditional Chinese characters, simplified characters, and Cantonese-specific forms.

✨ Why choose Cantonese Guru?

📚 Structured Cantonese Learning
• Clear progression from beginner to advanced levels (A1 → C2)
• Smart learning sessions powered by Spaced Repetition (SRS)
• Practice vocabulary, character writing, tones, translation, and pronunciation

📂 Custom & Downloadable Study Lists
• Download ready-made word lists inspired by common textbooks and learning programs
• Curated vocabulary sets by level and theme
• Create and manage your own custom Cantonese lists directly from the dictionary
• Focus your learning on exactly what you need, at your own pace

✍️ Writing & Characters
• Learn to write Chinese characters stroke by stroke
• Support for traditional, simplified, and Cantonese-specific characters
• Handwriting recognition for fast and intuitive dictionary lookup

🗣️ Tones, Pronunciation & Listening
• Master the 6 tones of Cantonese
• Pronunciation training with Jyutping and Yale romanization systems
• Listening exercises to train tone recognition and accuracy

📖 Dictionary & Language Resources
• 140,000+ entries covering Cantonese vocabulary and characters
• Search by Cantonese, Jyutping, Yale, or English
• Radical and key-based character search, just like a traditional paper dictionary
• Draw characters stroke by stroke to find their meaning
• Manage favorites, browsing history, and detailed entry information

📘 Reading & Reference
• Read Cantonese texts and documents directly in the app
• Create study lists from the characters and words found in your texts
• Comprehensive Cantonese reference tools:
– Jyutping & Yale transcription tables
– Transcription systems overview
– Numbers, dates, time, colours, shapes, and measurement units
– Chinese zodiac, expressions, and chéngyǔ
– Characters by frequency and radicals

🎯 Built for real progress

Cantonese Guru is trusted by students, teachers, and serious language learners worldwide.
Our structured and methodical approach ensures you build solid foundations and long-term mastery of Cantonese — not just short-term memorization.

Join thousands of learners improving their Cantonese every day with a serious, efficient, and well-designed learning tool.

💳 Subscriptions

Unlock all features with a subscription:
• 1-week free trial (except lifetime plan)
• Auto-renewing plans: 1 month, 6 months, or 12 months
• Lifetime access: Pay once, learn forever

Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.

🔒 Your privacy matters

We never sell or share your personal data.

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https://www.xamisoft.com/privacy-policy

Terms of use:
https://www.xamisoft.com/cgu

Download Cantonese Guru today and start mastering Cantonese — risk-free with a 1-week free trial.

Ratings and reviews

Starting session stroke wise, goes from easy to suddenly very difficult\complicated randomly. Search\category lists requires payment. No explanation found to what the "CL" part in definitions means. Not sure what the number icon is for, already cleared daily session.. some incorrect jyutping in sentences, needs report button. Words should be skippable or there should be a quick toggle for adding\learning new words. Thank you for reading!

great tool for serious learners. rating based on subscription version Good: -tons of built in lists -etymology, breaks down the meaning of each character -lots of study methods. switching between flashcards and multiple choice is easy to do but I personally didn't find intuitive to figure out how to do. -entering custom text for study provid -quick guides to shapes, days of the week, basics etc are useful Want to Have: -colorcoding based on tones.

one of the few reliable apps for learning Cantonese; it actually has Cantonese terms and phrases rather than just Mandarin with jyutping overlaid onto it. this was one of the main apps I used before going to Hong Kong and people remarked that my pronunciation was accurate, which is nice. may not be the best for those who don't learn via flashcards, but if you do, I'd recommend it.

What’s new

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions!
- Bug fixes and improvements