Chinese Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

📖 About This Tool

The same word keeps coming back and you cannot think of another. A word feels too weak or too strong and you want something in between. This happens in almost every piece of writing. The tool collects synonyms and antonyms for common words so that one lookup gives you the alternatives.

It is quick to use. Put one word per line, as many as you like, and each comes back with its synonyms and antonyms. Looking up "happy" gives pleased, glad, cheerful on one side and sad, upset, sorrowful on the other. Synonyms are ordered by how common they are, and the antonyms are all usable replacements.

If a word is missing, the tool does not return an empty page. It suggests words of a similar shape instead, so a mistyped entry leads you to the right one; tick the suggestion option to enable it. The option to show only words that have antonyms suits work on contrast, such as practising parallel sentences.

The side panel shows how many words you entered, how many were found, the totals for synonyms and antonyms and the size of the library. Ten high frequency words sit in the quick list for a try. Results can be copied as plain text or exported as CSV to build a vocabulary sheet. Everything runs locally.

Jyutping writes a syllable with an initial, a final and a tone number from one to six, and it is the scheme used by most Cantonese courses and dictionaries. Six tones is more than Mandarin's four, and the extra two are the reason learners mishear words: the same syllable at a different pitch is a different word entirely, so the number matters as much as the letters.

Phrases are matched before single characters because spoken Cantonese is full of fixed expressions whose reading is not the sum of their parts, and because characters written specifically for Cantonese do not decompose into Mandarin readings at all. The library holds common characters plus a set of frequent phrases; a character outside it is listed under not converted rather than silently dropped, so you always know how much of the text was covered. Since romanisation follows the common reading, a character with literary and colloquial readings gives one of them, and context decides which applies.

✨ Features

• Batch lookup: one word per line, several at once, listed one by one.
• Both sides together: a group of synonyms beside a group of antonyms.
• Fuzzy suggestions: related words when the exact one is missing.
• Filtering: show only entries that have antonyms.
• Statistics: input, hits and totals for synonyms and antonyms.
• Two outputs: copy as text or export a CSV vocabulary sheet.

🚀 How to Use

1. Write the words to look up, one per line.
2. Tick the options you want: suggestions, antonyms only, library size.
3. Press look up and the synonyms and antonyms appear below.
4. Use the quick list of common words for a fast trial.
5. Copy or export CSV when you need to keep it.

⚠️ Notes

• Coverage: mostly common two syllable words; single characters and rare words may be missing.
• Shades: synonyms are listed by frequency; judge register and nuance by context.
• Relativity: antonyms follow common pairings, and a word with several senses has several opposites.
• Duplicates: a repeated word is looked up once.
• Nothing is saved: refreshing clears the results, so export in time.