Common Cantonese Characters Disambiguated

Ordered by the characters’ Cantonese pronunciations. Flying do not recommend using the characters that are greyed out.

Full Unicode (including the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and the Supplementary Ideographic Plane) support is required in order to display all Chinese characters here.

Please note that Microsoft^® Windows 98/NT/2000/XP with Microsoft^® Internet Explorer 6.0 do not provide full support for Unicode. I’d recommend other more standard-compliant web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, etc. instead.

There are also some very useful tips on Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources about how to setup your PC for Unicode support.

Audio samples were mirrored from S. L. Wong’s A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton (electronic edition).

This is actually referring to the Hanyu Pinyin input method.

Please note that the Microsoft^® Pinyin IME 2.0 or below, which comes bundled in up to Windows 2000, doesn’t have full support for all Chinese characters here. You may try the alternative IME Quanpin or other third-party software like Ziguang Pinyin, etc. instead on these platforms.

The original Wubi86 (or Wubizixing) method supports only simplified Chinese characters defined in the GB2312 standard. This is actually referring to one of the later extensions to the original method (e.g., SunWb, Wangma Wubi 86, Zhineng Wubi, etc.), which follows the original rules by extends their support to the full Unicode standard.

Hover you mouse pointer on the encoding to reveal how the encoding is derived based on the input method’s rules. A letter in italic indicates an optional code for inputing the character. ^#

Hover your mouse pointer on the dash-underlined words to reveal their explanations in Mandarin Chinese.