Why 啱音字?
- • 100% Local & Reliable: Runs locally on your machine. No server crashes, no lag, works completely offline.
- • Instant Search: Native database processes multi-syllable queries in real-time as you type.
- • Customizable: Tailor the interface to your workflow. Toggle Jyutping, frequencies, and melodies.
Data Sources & Acknowledgments
This application is a 100% free, non-commercial educational tool.
We do not monetize this application or its underlying data.
This project is made possible by the incredible work of linguists, open-source maintainers, and community contributors. We proudly incorporate data from the following projects:
- • words.hk (粵典): Released under the Non-Commercial Open Data License.
- • Academia Sinica (Chinese WordNet / Sinica Corpus): Released under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 TW and the Open WordNet License.
- • Rime Cantonese (中州韻粵語拼音方案): Released under the CC BY 4.0 and the ODbL 1.0.
- • Unicode and Unihan: Copyright © 1991-Present Unicode, Inc. Distributed under the Unicode Copyright Terms of Use and the Unicode Data License.
- • Kaifangcidian (開放詞典): Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
- • HSK 3.0: Released under the MIT license.
- • HIT-IRLab Tongyici Cilin (哈工大同義詞詞林擴展版): Released under the Academic & Non-Commercial Use Restriction.
Special Thanks
Special thanks to Bill (姚程馭). If he hadn't constantly presented me with interesting technical challenges, I never would have started building this tool.
Thank you to Mili (李婉晶) for providing on-call, immediate assistance whenever I was unsure about Cantonese pronunciations.
For more information on the 0243 lyric-writing method, please refer to the works of Wong Chi Wah (黃志華).
About the Creator & Support
啱音字 is made by Ivor Houlker (艾浩家). I'm an occasional programmer and composer, and my Cantonese isn't good enough to always hear when lyrics don't quite fit. I'm trying my best, but if there are any linguistic inaccuracies or bugs, I'm sorry.
If you spot an issue, please submit a bug report using the template on GitHub. For general support and inquiries, you can reach me directly at ivor@rooftopproductions.hk.