Hanping Cantonese Dictionary

Offline dictionary for learning Cantonese as a second language

Exclusively on Android, so make your 🍏friends jealous!

Note: This app is a proper Cantonese dictionary. Most of the other 'cantonese' apps on the Play Store are Mandarin dictionaries with Cantonese pronunciation, which is probably not what you want.

If you are looking for our Mandarin app, please see Hanping Chinese Dictionary

If you're not satisfied, for any reason, within 30 days you get a full refund, period, no questions asked. We don't want your money if you're not amazingly happy. Simply send us an email.

Main features:

★ Uses best-in-class Cantodict dictionary data as the base dictionary

★ Over 6,000 example sentences demonstrating word usage for over 3,000 words

★ Chinese handwriting recognition built in

★ Hanzi stroke animations (800+ free plus 8,700+ via in-app purchase)

★ Audio - recordings of every Cantonese syllable, by a real native speaker

★ AnkiDroid Flashcards support (bulk export as well as auto-export when word is starred) for studying using Anki flashcards (spaced repetition system) (Xiaomi users, please read: https://hanpingchinese.com/2020/01/miui-11-unable-to-grant-ankidroid-permission-to-hanping-chinese-pro )

★ One-tap translation of sentences (if Google Translate app installed). Translation can be stored with starred words

★ Search Hanzi / Chinese, Jyutping, Yale or English

★ Both Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters supported

★ Jyutping or Yale pronunciation throughout

★ Coloring by tone - you can color Hanzi, Jyutping or Yale

★ Homescreen Widgets* - flip through your favorite words from your homescreen. Try adding multiple widgets!

★ Offline access to all features (unless specified)

★ Backup / Restore starred words, search history, preferences etc

★ Simple, intuitive and powerful UI

★ Live search - results update as-you-type

★ Progressive results - as you scroll down, progressively deeper searches are seamlessly performed

★ Enter long Chinese text in the search box and get instant romanization as well as automatic vocab list

★ Starred Chinese words/phrases, Word lists, Search history

★ Custom search using wildcards

★ Night mode (black background)

★ Voice recognition (online only and only on supported devices)

★ Useful links to websites e.g. Youdao, HanziCraft, Skritter, Google Translate (online only)

★ Seamless integration with our Hanping Chinese Camera and Hanping Chinese Popup apps (for image-based character recognition)

★ Quick Settings Tile to toggle clipboard monitoring on/off

★ No ads!

Please report any bugs or suggestions to us via e-mail.

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