# HK Characters — Explore Hong Kong words

> Explore Hong Kong words (iPhone/iPad app by Bosco Ho.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hk-characters/id6502965916 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Bosco Ho](https://appshunter.io/developer/593354547)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 410 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2024-07-04
- Data updated: 2026-05-16
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hk-characters/id6502965916/reviews.md

## What is HK Characters?

Explore various Hong Kong characters through the latest version of the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (2016).

Glyph Variants
- See how a single character can be written in various glyph variants, some of which may commonly used in a specific country.

Collections
- Browse and discover characters in conveniently grouped collections, including “Tang” (characters with Tang-era pronunciations available), “Commonly Used”, and “Vietnamese”. 
- View characters by the year added to the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set.

Voice to Speech
- Hear and compare how the same character can be read in Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, and Mandarin.

Search
- Look for words by definition, Jyutping, Unicode codepoint, and more.

Unihan Metadata
- View a character’s associated Unihan database metadata, if available.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2024-07-04

No release notes.

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