Hanping Cantonese Dictionary

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About this app

A true Cantonese dictionary, not a Mandarin dictionary with Cantonese pronunciation added.

I've been building Hanping dictionaries since 2009. I'm a solo developer, and I answer every email myself, usually within 24 hours.

Look up words by English, Jyutping, Yale, handwriting or voice, in Traditional or Simplified characters. Built on CantoDict. Everything works offline, with no ads.

★ Native-speaker audio for every syllable
★ 6,000+ example sentences with English translations
★ Jyutping or Yale throughout, with tone colors
★ Stroke animations, character decompositions, radical lookup and phonetic groups
★ Document Reader: paste text or open a TXT, Word or EPUB file, then tap any word to look it up
★ Flashcards with spaced repetition, free for up to 10 new words a day
★ Starred words with tags, widgets, and free backup to your device or the cloud
★ Translate sentences with Google Translate, Microsoft Translator or DeepL

Optional add-ons: Image Reader (look up words in photos and screenshots; try it free on three of your own images), more Flashcards (up to 50 new words a day), AnkiDroid export, vocab import/export, 8,200+ more stroke animations, and Hong Kong male and female AI voices for example sentences. Image Reader, Flashcards, vocab import/export and stroke animations are bought once for both Hanping apps.

Also on iPhone and iPad. Learning Mandarin? See Hanping Chinese Dictionary.

Not happy? Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked.
True Cantonese dictionary: Jyutping, Yale, OCR, handwriting, flashcards, offline
Updated on
10 Nov 2026

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Ratings and reviews

320 reviews
Ching Chong
27 August 2026
I've used this app for almost 10 years now and use it several times every week since then. Has improved my vocabulary tremendously on journey to learn cantonese from scratch.
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A Google user
2 July 2019
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.
35 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
26 September 2018
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.
7 people found this review helpful
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What's new

• Built-in Flashcards: study any list, such as HSK, with FSRS scheduling
• Flashcards homescreen widget for reviewing due cards
• Image reader: tap + to add the next line to the selection
• History: see which document a word was looked up in, and tap to jump back to it
• Indonesian support, plus Spanish, French, Korean, Russian and Thai to try in App language
• Bug fixes and stability improvements