Dictionary of Cantonese Classifier

I’ve recently found a Cantonese-Japanese dictionary that lists Cantonese classifier in detail. It
can be treated as a dictionary of Cantonese classifier. For those who don’t know how to read
Japanese hiragana and katakana, the following is a manual of this dictionary and a manual of
converting Japanese (or Chinese) from PDF into English.

Link of the Cantonese-Japanese Dictionary

http://bit.ly/hB2Kzv

Manual of the dictionary

The first of every entry is either Japanese hiragana or katakana and it’s the pronunciation of the
word inside【】, which is either Kanji or the origin of Japanese loanword.《》is the Japanese
translation of the corresponding Cantonese sentence. “量” is the abbreviation for Cantonese
classifier. If you just want to learn Cantonese classifier, you can just study noun entries which
are marked by both (名) (noun) and (量) (classifier).

Continue…
Abbreviation and Symbol

Preposition

Noun

Pronoun

Place Name

Auxiliary Word

Adjective

Slang

Time Noun

Adverb

Verb

Question Word

Connective
Classifier/Measuring Word

Teineigo

Numeral

Keigo

Associated Usage

Japanese
Translation
Antonym
Manual of Converting Japanese (or Chinese) from PDF into English

I recommend converting Japanese into English because the OCR (already the best one)
recognises Japanese better than Chinese, especially for the Cantonese characters. Also, there
are more Japanese dictionaries than Cantonese dictionaries. You can also try free Japanese
OCRs as well.

Get OCR (Shhhhh…)

If you have one, just ignore this part.

1. Get the downloader from here. (I scanned with avast and it’s safe.)
2. Get the OCR from here. Check and click the box on the left. A dialogue box will pop up
and the name of the corresponding downloader will be highlighted. Just click “yes”.
Don’t forget! Scroll all the way down until you see another box with “FR10…” and click
the box again. (I scanned and they’re safe.)

3. If you know how to mount an ISO file, just ignore this part. Get Daemon Tool Lite
(freeware) from cnet.
4. Click “Daemon Tool Lite” and click the green plus icon to add the ISO file. Then, right
click on the name of the ISO file and choose “mount”. Run “autorun” and install the
programme. Eject the file after installation by clicking forth button from the left.

Guide to Conversion

1. Click “AABBY screenshot reader”

2. Click on the “language” column and choose “more languages”. Expand “Asian languages”
and add Japanese (and Traditional/Simplified Chinese/whatever you like).
3. Click on the “send” column and choose “text to Microsoft word” (Actually, it’s up to you.
I personally prefer m$ word.)
4. Click on the “capture” column and choose “area” mode, in which the OCR recognises
more precisely.

5. Click the box on the right.

6. Choose the Hiragana/Katakana and a line of editable text will appear in m$ word. If the
OCR fails to recognise it, try the kanji. Red underline is Kanji and green underline is
Cantonese noun with its classifier.

7. Copy the text and paste it to a Japanese-English dictionary. I prefer this one. Here’s the
result of this example. Don’t forget to match the Kanji.

So…you know the classifier for a masterpiece is “幅” fuk1 now! Yay, FUKKKKK!

(It’s actually a Cantonese gag! There’s a University in Fujian called “Fujian University” (福建
大學) which its Cantonese pronunciation is Fuk1 Gin3 U. If you want to make a really
unfunny gag, here it is:

A: Where did you go to school?

B: Fuk1 Gin3 U

A: …… )