Language Info

Cantonese written in Traditional script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Alternate Scripts for Cantonese

  • Cantonese can also be written using the Simplified script

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

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Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Cantonese uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Cantonese is 6,472,350 people across 1 countries.

Hong Kong SAR China

6,472,350 people
90.00% literate in Cantonese

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters