About

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Introduction

CantoWords is a Cantonese dictionary based on 粵典 (words.hk). We use crowd-sourcing methods to sustainably develop a comprehensive Cantonese dictionary that will be useful for both beginner and advanced users. We aim to provide complete explanations and illustrative example sentences.

 Map of Ping and Yue dialect groups in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Guangdong, based on map B8 of the Language Atlas of China, by Stephen Adolphe, Li Rong, Theo Baumann, and Mei W. Lee, Longman, 1987, ISBN 978-962-359-085-3. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ping_and_Yue_dialect_map.svg. Created by Kanguole

Tenets

CantoWords is a descriptivist dictionary -- our goal is to document the actual contemporary state of the Cantonese language in Hong Kong, not to set an 'authoritative' standard. In addition to usage that is accepted by mainstream Cantonese users, we also document features that are used by a substantial minority.



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Purpose

When we started the project, Cantonese dictionaries in Chinese included only words that are not Mandarin; whereas those in English focused on translating simple words and phrases. We believe that making a comprehensive, bilingual Cantonese dictionary would raise the status of Cantonese as a standalone and complete language, helping us pass on our heritage.

Open data

Open Content

We believe in ideas of open content, and we publish our content under a relatively permissive license. In addition, some of our data that may be useful for developing input methods, natural language processing etc. is released in the Public Domain.



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Want to help?

As long as you use Cantonese in your daily life, no matter where you live, we are more than happy to invite you to our editor team.

If you are interested in joining us, please contact us via either email or Facebook

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Active Editors

  • Edwardjyu
  • Pi
  • Zingwaa
  • bullsword
  • chaaak
  • element14
  • heitung
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