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Chinese and Cantonese are both written in Chinese characters, so the translated output uses characters you already recognise. You can usually read the result aloud without transliteration, though spelling conventions and accented characters still differ.
Both Chinese and Cantonese belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family. Related languages tend to share vocabulary roots and comparable sentence structure, which generally makes machine translation between them more reliable — though false friends, words that look alike but mean different things, are also more common between relatives.
Both languages follow subject-verb-object (SVO) order, so clauses usually keep their shape during translation. Words tend to land in a similar position, which makes it easier to check a translation against the original even without fluency.
Chinese: About 1.3 speakers globally, making it one of the world's most spoken languages. Cantonese: Approximately 86 million people speak Cantonese as their first language.
Everyday phrases translated from Chinese to Cantonese — useful for travel, conversation and learning.
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 你好 | 你好 |
| 早上好 | 早晨 |
| 下午好 | 下午好 |
| 晚上好 | 晚上好 |
| 晚安 | 晚安 |
| 再见 | 再見 |
| 稍后见 | 遲啲見 |
| 明天见 | 聽日見 |
| 欢迎 | 歡迎 |
| 你好吗？ | 你點呀？ |
| 我很好，谢谢 | 我好好，多謝你 |
| 祝你有美好的一天 | 祝你過個好日子 |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 请 | 唔該 |
| 谢谢你 | 多謝你 |
| 非常感谢 | 好多謝你 |
| 不客气 | 歡迎你 |
| 是的 | 係呀 |
| 否 | 唔係 |
| 对不起 | 唔好意思 |
| 对不起 | 對唔住 |
| 没问题 | 冇問題 |
| 当然 | 當然啦 |
| 恭喜你 | 恭喜你 |
| 祝你好运 | 祝你好運 |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 你叫什么名字？ | 你叫咩名？ |
| 很高兴认识你 | 好開心認識你 |
| 你来自哪里？ | 你嚟自邊度？ |
| 你今年多大？ | 你幾歲？ |
| 我是一名学生 | 我係個學生 |
| 我在这里度假 | 我喺度度假 |
| 我来这里是为了工作 | 我嚟呢度係為咗做嘢 |
| 这是我的朋友 | 呢個係我朋友 |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 一 | 一 |
| 两个 | 兩個 |
| 三 | 三 |
| 四 | 四 |
| 五 | 五 |
| 六 | 六 |
| 七 | 七 |
| 八 | 八 |
| 九 | 九 |
| 十 | 十 |
| 一百 | 一百 |
| 一千 | 一千 |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 今天 | 今日 |
| 明天 | 聽日 |
| 昨天 | 尋日 |
| 现在 | 而家 |
| 后来 | 遲啲 |
| 现在几点了？ | 而家幾點？ |
| 早上 | 喺朝早 |
| 晚上 | 喺夜晚 |
| 星期一 | 星期一 |
| 周五 | 星期五 |
| 下周 | 下星期 |
| 一小时 | 一個鐘 |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 浴室在哪里？ | 個浴室喺邊？ |
| 火车站在哪里？ | 火車站喺邊？ |
| 机场在哪里？ | 機場喺邊？ |
| 我怎样才能到达那里？ | 我點樣去到嗰度？ |
| 左转 | 轉咗 |
| 右转 | 右轉 |
| 一直往前走 | 直行 |
| 已经很近了 | 佢喺附近 |
| 很远 | 好遠 |
| 我迷路了 | 我迷失咗 |
| 我需要一辆出租车 | 我要架的士 |
| 我在哪里可以买票？ | 我可以喺邊度買飛？ |
| 票多少銭？ | 飛幾錢？ |
| 步行安全吗？ | 行得安全嗎？ |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 我饿了 | 我好肚餓 |
| 我渴了 | 我好口渴 |
| 请喝水 | 水，唔該 |
| 请给一张两人桌 | 唔該，一張兩個人嘅枱 |
| 请给菜单 | 餐牌，唔該 |
| 你有什么推荐？ | 你推薦啲咩？ |
| 我想要这个 | 我想要呢個 |
| 很好吃 | 好好味 |
| 请付帐单 | 張單，唔該 |
| 我不吃肉 | 我唔食肉 |
| 我有食物过敏 | 我有食物過敏 |
| 咖啡 | 咖啡 |
| 茶 | 茶 |
| 面包 | 麵包 |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 这要花多少钱？ | 呢個要幾多錢？ |
| 太贵了 | 太貴喇 |
| 你们接受信用卡吗？ | 你接受信用卡嗎？ |
| 我只是在寻找 | 我只係搵緊 |
| 我会接受它 | 我會攞佢 |
| 打开 | 開咗 |
| 关闭 | 閂咗 |
| 入口处 | 入口 |
| 退出 | 退出 |
| 市场在哪里？ | 個市場喺邊度？ |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 帮助 | 幫手 |
| 打电话给医生 | 打電話去醫生度 |
| 报警 | 打畀警察 |
| 我需要帮助 | 我需要幫手 |
| 我病了 | 我病咗 |
| 医院在哪里？ | 醫院喺邊？ |
| 药房在哪里？ | 藥房喺邊？ |
| 这里很痛 | 呢度好痛 |
| 我需要一名医生 | 我需要一個醫生 |
| 附近有医院吗？ | 附近有冇醫院？ |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| 你会说英语吗？ | 你識唔識講英文？ |
| 我不明白 | 我唔明 |
| 我明白了 | 我明白 |
| 请慢慢地说 | 唔該慢慢講 |
| 请重复一遍 | 請重複嗰個 |
| 请写下来 | 唔該寫低佢 |
| 这意味着什么？ | 呢個係咩意思？ |
| 这话怎么说呢？ | 你點講呢句？ |
| 我正在学习 | 我學緊嘢 |
| 我稍微讲一点 | 我講少少嘢 |
| 你能帮我吗？ | 你可唔可以幫我？ |
| 我不知道 | 我唔知道 |
Translations are generated automatically and may vary by region or context.
Cantonese is primarily spoken in the Guangdong and Guangxi provinces of China, including Hong Kong and Macau. It is also widely spoken in overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe.
Cantonese does not use an alphabet per se, but utilizes traditional Chinese characters for writing and Jyutping for phonetic transcription.
Cantonese features six tones in its modern form, each of which can alter the meaning of a word. The language is known for its rich array of tones, more so than Mandarin Chinese.
Typically follows a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) order but is highly flexible. Uses particles to indicate tense and aspect rather than inflection.
Incorporates loanwords from English, Japanese, and other Chinese dialects, especially in modern usage within Hong Kong and Macau.
Part of the Chinese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is one of the major regional varieties of Chinese.
Primarily uses traditional Chinese characters. There is no widely adopted standard for writing colloquial Cantonese, although informal romanization systems are used for educational purposes, dictionaries, and online communication.
While literary written Chinese (Classical Chinese) was used historically for formal writing, modern written Cantonese has developed to better match the spoken language, especially in informal contexts.
Approximately 86 million people speak Cantonese as their first language.
Chinese is primarily spoken in China (中国, Zhōngguó), Taiwan (台湾, Táiwān), and Singapore (新加坡, Xīnjiāpō), with significant numbers of speakers in Indonesia (印度尼西亚, Yìndùníxīyà), Malaysia (马来西亚, Mǎláixīyà), Thailand (泰国, Tàiguó), and overseas Chinese communities globally.
Does not use an alphabet but uses a logographic writing system composed of thousands of characters (汉字, Hànzì).A (诶), B (比), C (西), D (迪), E (伊), F (艾弗), G (吉), H (艾尺), I (艾), J (杰), K (开), L (艾勒), M (艾马), N (艾娜), O (哦), P (屁), Q (吉吾), R (艾儿), S (艾丝), T (提), U (伊吾), V (维), W (豆贝尔维), X (艾克斯), Y (吾艾), Z (贼德)
Features four tones in Mandarin (high, rising, falling-rising, and falling) which are crucial to meaning. Other dialects may have up to nine tones.
Typically follows a subject-verb-object (SVO) order (主谓宾, zhǔwèibīn). Uses particles to indicate tense and aspect. Does not inflect nouns for number or gender, nor verbs for tense.
Includes loanwords from Mongolian (蒙古语, Ménggǔ yǔ), Tibetan (藏语, Zàng yǔ), Japanese (日语, Rìyǔ), and English (英语, Yīngyǔ), among others.
Part of the Sino-Tibetan language family (汉藏语系, Hàn-Zàng yǔxì).
Uses Chinese characters (汉字, Hànzì). Simplified characters (简体字, Jiǎntǐzì) are used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional characters (繁体字, Fántǐzì) are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong (香港, Xiānggǎng), and Macau (澳门, Àomén).
Chinese characters have evolved over several millennia, with significant simplifications occurring in the 20th century in Mainland China.
About 1.3 speakers globally, making it one of the world's most spoken languages.
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