Cantonese Dictionary "All-in-One" Tool

This is a tool I've been working on on-and-off over the past few years. Its was designed to allow someone who has a book full of dialogues to be able to both hear what the dialogues sound like, and to be able to find out what the individual words mean, and what their pronounciations are. With this goal in mind, I designed it to allow for bulk lookups of data. However, since this tool wraps around other peoples' webservices, I limited the amount of things you can look up at once to a reasonable 10 at a time. Please do not abuse this tool if you can help it.


My Cantonese Learning Dictionary Tool

Sounds to Characters

As you can see in this picture, there are several options you can select, followed by a few buttons. The 'Submit' button goes with the options above it, and basically will load the two colorful boxes with data. The second button will fill the left, green, box with the sound files for the jyutping you enter. (if tfiles for them exist.) This is an example of the "Sound to Chinese Character" option, and it depends on jyutping. As you can see, I typed "nei5". You can put multiple things in the box, but you must either separate them on separate lines, the default (despite what the text says), or enter in a character you wish to have them separated by. (The delimiter. For example ";". If you entered that in the delimiter box, then you could type "nei5;hou2" and it would give you the chinese characters for those two sounds.)


Jyutping Sounds to Chinese Characters

Chinese Character Lookup

This option looks up the various information associated with a Chinese Characcter. As you can see, they are separated on separate lines (default way of separating them). Not only will definitions be returned, but one of the websites will give you example words too. I think maybe sentences too.


Chinese Characters to Information About Them

Jyutping Sounds to Sound Files

This was designed to allow someone to basically hear a whole example sentence spoken out loud. So if you have a textbook and it says "nei5 hou2 maa1?" and you have no audio files, and have no idea how that sounds, you can click the buttons one after another to make it say "nei5 hou2 maa1". It is super useful, as long as the actual files exist. If they do not, check out forvo.com to see if they have the words you are missing (and request someone produce audio for it if they don't). This option is what you get if you click the button "Generate Sounds Table".


Jyutping Sound Getter for Listening Practice

Chinese Word(s)

This option is to look up actual words, whether made up of two or one cChinese character. As you can see from the image, only the right website provides this option (as far as I know and have implemented), and it provides the pronounciation in both Cantonese Jyutping and Mandarin pinyin. Perhaps to aide with writing it if you have only a pinyin keyboard, and also perhaps in case you are learning mandarin. This option might be the one with the example sentences. I believe it is.


Chinese Words Meaning and Romanization

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