This website is a comparative dictionary of word phonology. It displays the pronunciation of words from Chinese origin in various Sinitic languages (Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, etc.) and other languages that borrowed them (Japanese, Vietname, Korean).

A nine-tailed fox (九尾狐) is called kyubiko in Japanese (きゅうびこ), kumiho (구미호) in Korean, jiǔwěihú in Standard Chinese, and gau2 mei5 wu4 in Cantonese. All those pronunciations are related, but differences in orthographies as well as evolutions of each language obscur that fact. By converting the pronunciations to a common format (International Phonetic Alphabet) and aligning phoneme, the correspondances are made more understandable.

It is possible to search words using traditional Chinese characters, Japanese shinjitai or Japanese katakana. Other languages are more conveniently searched by browsing their index.

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To create a link to an entry, simply append the word in Chinese characters after kyubiko.org/entry/. For instance kyubiko.org/entry/恭喜.