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Cantonese Alphabet (Simplified)

The letters and characters of Cantonese written in the Simplified script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 73,634,080 people read or write it across 1 country.

Cantonese is also written in: (Traditional)

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Cantonese — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

Where Cantonese (Simplified) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Cantonese in the Simplified script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.