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A little familiar. A whole new language.
You know more
Mandarin than
you think.
Coffee. Sofa. Kung fu. Find the sounds that connect English and Mandarin, with pronunciation above each word and its counterpart below.
ONE IDEA. TWO FAMILIAR SOUNDS.
咖啡coffee
≈
coffee咖啡
Almost familiar. Distinctly Mandarin.
01 / 咖啡42sound-alike pairs
—dictionary entries
双向learn in both directions
Similar sounds, shared meanings.
Not exact homophones.
The familiar words collection
Make the connection.
注
These are similar-sounding equivalents, selected for learning—not a claim that they share a direct origin. Some traveled through other languages or Chinese varieties. Pinyin keeps Mandarin tones; the English guide uses broad US-English IPA with stress before the vowel. Read about the dictionaries ↗
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Every word,
a little clearer.
Paste Chinese or English. See pronunciation above the original text, with an optional guide to the other language.
YOUR READING GUIDE
Select an underlined word for meanings and other readings.
This is a dictionary reading aid, not sentence translation. English words may have several Chinese equivalents; check the word details before choosing one. Names, idioms, and tone changes in connected speech may need review. Chinese unknown to the dictionary may receive a pinyin-pro fallback.
Look it up. Hear it. Keep it.
A dictionary
in both directions.
Search Hanzi, pinyin with marks or numbers, or an English meaning. Traditional and Simplified forms are both included.
Furigana's idea. Mandarin's voice.
A font that
helps you read.
Real pinyin built into the font. Your Chinese stays plain text—copyable, searchable, and ready to use elsewhere.
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LAYOUT PREVIEWRegular weight
学习中文
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ACTUAL COMPILED FONT
银行，行走。
重庆，重要。
音乐，快乐。
重庆，重要。
音乐，快乐。
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Built on
good foundations.
What we learned from Furifont
Furifont includes a live font studio, Sans and Serif fonts, variable weights, reading lookup, alternate-reading selectors, and website helpers. This adaptation adds bilingual reading and sound-alike exploration.
Here you can use Sans and Serif regular fonts, build custom tone and layout settings, hide known words, search the reading dictionary, and use a bookmarklet or userscript. Variable fonts and alternate-reading selectors are available on the font home page.
Furifont source ↗Mandarin: CC-CEDICT
Definitions, Traditional and Simplified forms, and dictionary pinyin. The app parses the data, selects a sound-alike list, and chooses a bounded set of unambiguous words for the font.
Source & downloads ↗ · AttributionEnglish: CMUdict
US-English pronunciations from Carnegie Mellon. We convert its ARPAbet phonemes into a broad IPA guide. Stress is shown directly before the stressed vowel because this dataset does not provide syllable boundaries.
Some phrases or uncommon words have no entry. We show “guide unavailable” instead of inventing one. English regional pronunciations vary.
CMUdict ↗ · LicenseWhat stays on your device
Dictionary lookup and annotation run in your browser after downloading the dictionary. Saved words stay in this browser. Listening uses only installed, local speech voices; availability depends on your device. Custom font compilation requires the local app.
The full dictionary powers the reader. Downloadable fonts use fewer word rules because OpenType limits the number of glyphs. Unresolved ambiguous characters stay bare.