🇭🇰 Cantonese
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Cantonese vocabulary with Jyutping that makes sense
Cantonese has excellent learning materials in Chinese and comparatively few built for English speakers. These flashcards close some of that gap: each card shows a character, and flipping it reveals the Jyutping romanisation alongside a plain English meaning, so you can build vocabulary without first mastering a second romanisation system.
How to play
- A Cantonese character or word appears — say it aloud if you can.
- Flip the card to reveal the Jyutping and the English meaning.
- Mark it as known or still learning so you can focus the next pass.
- Cycle through the deck until the still-learning pile shrinks.
What you’ll practise
- Everyday Cantonese vocabulary you will actually hear in Hong Kong.
- Reading Jyutping, including the tone number that follows each syllable.
- Connecting written Chinese to spoken Cantonese, which differ more than many learners expect.
- Recognising words that share a character with Mandarin but sound entirely different.
If you already know some Mandarin, you will recognise many characters here while finding the pronunciation completely unfamiliar — the writing system is largely shared, the spoken languages are not. That can be encouraging or disorienting depending on how you frame it, and it is worth deciding early which language you want as your primary focus.