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Hanping Cantonese Dictionary vVARY

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About this app

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)
★ Hanzi decompositions (top 10k characters)
★ Over 1k phonetic groups covering over 6k characters
★ 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

In-app purchases

$2.99 - $4.99 per item

Version Information

Version
-
Downloads
5K+
Updated on
Dec 10, 2025
Released
Sep 11, 2014
Requires
Android Varies with device

What's New

• Replace sample lists with more comprehensive 'general vocab' lists organized by topic
• Better Yale support in AnkiDroid Flashcards
• Fixed issue storing multi-syllable characters (like 兙 shíkè) in history
• Proper handling of font size in Search box
• Added some screenshots to Add-On prompts
• Bug fixes

Ratings & Reviews

4.9
333 ratings

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