Hanping Cantonese Dictionary play online

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
Many example sentences demonstrating word usage
Chinese handwriting recognition built in
Hanzi stroke animations (800+ free plus 8700+ 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
Clipboard Monitoring - raise notification when Hanzi copied to clipboard
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.