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Example Sentences English 中文 harmony Opening/ Home page Tap on a button in the loading pentagon to dive into that Upon opening the app, the world. Pressing the yin yang user will see “English” and in the center takes you to the “中文” merge into a yin app’s “About” page. yang. That reflects the goal of harmony - to help the user Most things are labeled learn Cantonese and/or in English and Chinese to Mandarin through a bilingual help the user learn Chinese experience without getting more quickly, but this (and too stressed. Soothing colors, many other things) can be pleasing visuals, and relaxing changed in the settings and music keep the user at peace. preferences. harmony (Icons in top navigation bar, from left to right: home button, help button, and harmony settings button.) Dictionary (initial) When you first open the By default, the app only shows dictionary, it shows the items you the last 15 items you you last looked at - your looked at, but you can change history. The green tabs along this in the settings menu. the bottom allow you to swipe between items you recently The search bar is fixed as you viewed, items you starred, or scroll so you can search at any items most popular with other point (instead of having to harmony users. scroll back up to the top). Here, all the characters are in Traditional Chinese because the user left the “Traditional Chinese” checkbox in the search bar checked. The app remembers your choice even after you leave the dictionary section. harmony Choosing Typing in type of input your query To begin your search, you’ll Tapping the search field will want to first choose your make the keyboard pop up type of input by pressing the and allow you to type in your button next to the search field. query. You can search by: ~English This is the Apple keyboard. ~Hanzi (Chinese It comes with a variety of characters) Chinese input methods, ~ Chinese words including pinyin, cangjie, and (character compounds) handwriting. Users will have ~Pinyin (romanized to download a third-party app Mandarin) if they want other methods ~ Jyutping (romanized (e.g. zhuyin/ bopomofo and Cantonese) jyutping) though. ~ Radicals The button is set to English by default, but you can customize the app soharmony the dictionary also remembers your input choice for next time. Exploring results Results appear as you type, Long-pressing any card will like Google Instant. The cause it to partially expand, Recent, Starred, and Popular revealing audio samples for pages will disappear though, pinying and jyutping, the so to get back to them, you’ll language(s) the character or have to press the back button. term is used in, and audio for an example sentence. To make it contract, simply tap the card again (in the square part). Tapping the star will mark the character or term for later review and add it to the Starred page. Tapping the “more info” arrow will take you to the full informational page for the character or term. You can also go directly to the harmony full page by tapping on the contracted card (instead of long-pressing it). 字典(dictionary) 邊度|边度 traditional simplified 1 6 粵拼 (jyutping) in dou 字典(dictionary) Even deeper 拼音 (pinyin) biāndù exploration 意思 (meaning) here (adv.) Here’s a sample dedicated, full Used in Cantonese Underlined terms can be 邊度|边度 page for a term. You can still tapped on to take the user to star the term on this page and traditional simplified their respective pages, which play audio samples. 1 6 would look similar to this one. 粵拼 (jyutping) in dou Variants (homophones) This page will also show 拼音 (pinyin) biāndù the term in traditional vs. 邊喥 (in1dou6) - where (Cantonese) 意思 (meaning) (adv.) simplified characters (if they here 1 6 differ). Pages featuring single 焉道 (in dou | yāndào) - where (Cantonese) Used in Cantonese characters will also contain information about radicals ynonyms and different stroke orders. Variants (homophones) 邊喥 (in1dou6) - where (Cantonese) 焉道 (in1dou6 | yāndào) - where (Cantonese) harmony ynonyms Characters 邊 (in1) - edge nearby border side which (Cantonese) 度 (dou//do6) - measure rules estimate roughly Compounds (Cantonese) 邊度係呀 (in1dou6hai6aa3) - not really Characters 邊度會有咁大隻蛤乸隨街跳㗎 (in1dou6ui5au5gam3daai6e3gap3naa2ceoi4gaai1tiu3gaa3) - (in1) - edge nearby border side which (Cantonese) 邊 are you kidding how could that possibly be true 度 (dou//do6) - measure rules estimate roughly Example sentences (Cantonese) 你今日打算去邊度呀？ 5 1 6 2 3 3 1 6 3 Compounds (Cantonese) (nei gam at daa syun heoi in dou aa ) here are you planning on going today 邊度係呀 (in1dou6hai6aa3) - not really 學校咁大﹐唔知去邊度搵佢至啱。 6 6 3 6 4 1 3 1 6 2 5 3 1 邊度會有咁大隻蛤乸隨街跳㗎 (ho haau gam daai m i heoi in dou an eoi i ngaam ) (in1dou6ui5au5gam3daai6e3gap3naa2ceoi4gaai1tiu3gaa3) - The school is so big - I wonder where/which way I should actually go to find him/her. are you kidding how could that possibly be true Example sentences (Cantonese) 你今日打算去邊度呀？ 5 1 6 2 3 3 1 6 3 (nei gam at daa syun heoi in dou aa ) here are you planning on going today 學校咁大﹐唔知去邊度搵佢至啱。 6 6 3 6 4 1 3 1 6 2 5 3 1 (ho haau gam daai m i heoi in dou an eoi i ngaam ) The school is so big - I wonder where/which way I should actually go to find him/her. 字典(dictionary) 邊度|边度 字典(dictionary) traditional simplified 1 6 粵拼 (jyutping) in dou 拼音 (pinyin) biāndù 邊度|边度 意思 (meaning) (adv.) here traditional simplified Used in Cantonese 1 6 粵拼 (jyutping) in dou 拼音 (pinyin) biāndù 意思 (meaning) here (adv.) Variants (homophones) Used in Cantonese 邊喥 (in1dou6) - where (Cantonese) 焉道 (in1dou6 | yāndào) - where (Cantonese) Variants (homophones) ynonyms 邊喥 (in1dou6) - where (Cantonese) 焉道 (in1dou6 | yāndào) - where (Cantonese) ynonyms Characters 1 邊 (in ) - edge nearby border side which (Cantonese) (Yes, there’s a lot of info.) / 6 Tapping on the tab on the 度 (dou /do ) - measure rules estimate roughly bottom will expand the page Depending on the term, the and reveal more example Characters page may display results in Compounds (Cantonese) sentences. These sorts of tabs Cantonese, Mandarin, or for hiding could also appear 1 邊 (in ) - edge nearby border side which (Cantonese) both. In this case, this word 邊度係呀 (in1dou6hai6aa3) - not really in other sections (say, the is only used in Cantonese, “Compounds” section) when 度 (dou//do6) - measure rules estimate roughly so most of the results are 邊度會有咁大隻蛤乸隨街跳㗎 there are many items so the 1 6 5 5 3 6 3 3 2 4 1 3 3 in Cantonese (though the (in dou ui au gam daai e gap naa ceoi gaai tiu gaa ) - user doesn’t have to do too are you kidding how could that possibly be true Compounds (Cantonese) individual characters are used much scrolling. in Mandarin as well). 邊度係呀 (in1dou6hai6aa3) - not really Example sentences (Cantonese) 你今日打算去邊度呀？ 5 1 6 2 3 3 1 6 3 邊度會有咁大隻蛤乸隨街跳㗎 (nei gam at daa syun heoi in dou aa ) (in1dou6ui5au5gam3daai6e3gap3naa2ceoi4gaai1tiu3gaa3) - here are you planning on going today are you kidding how could that possibly be true 學校咁大﹐唔知去邊度搵佢至啱。 6 6 3 6 4 1 3 1 6 2 5 3 1 (ho haau gam daai m i heoi in dou an eoi i ngaam ) Example sentences (Cantonese) The school is so big - I wonder where/which way I should actually go to find him/her. 你今日打算去邊度呀？ harmony 5 1 6 2 3 3 1 6 3 (Credit goes to CantoDict for (nei gam at daa syun heoi in dou aa ) here are you planning on going today inspiration and info!) 學校咁大﹐唔知去邊度搵佢至啱。 6 6 3 6 4 1 3 1 6 2 5 3 1 (ho haau gam daai m i heoi in dou an eoi i ngaam ) The school is so big - I wonder where/which way I should actually go to find him/her..
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