Taiwanese-Mandarin Dictionary

Now free! The Taiwan MoE Taiwanese dictionary: 29,606 entries with audio, fully offline. Scan Hanji with your camera and tap to look up; go Pro to search from any app.

A clean, fast, and comfortable way to read the Ministry of Education's Taiwanese dictionary.

Taigi (Taiwanese-Mandarin Dictionary) is an offline dictionary app for Taiwanese (台語), built on the Taiwan Ministry of Education's open dataset《臺灣台語常用詞辭典》. Every Taiwanese entry comes paired with its Mandarin gloss and a Mandarin example translation. The dictionary text and all audio are bundled or downloadable so you can look up and listen entirely offline.

WORKS ON IPHONE, IPAD, MAC, AND APPLE VISION PRO All free to download and fully offline. A one-time Pro purchase unlocks on every device signed in with the same Apple ID (Universal Purchase).

FREE & PRO Core search, browsing, bookmarks, and audio are free (camera lookup is free a few times a day). A one-time Pro upgrade adds: look up anywhere (select text in any other app and search, with audio), wildcard (pattern) search (* / ?), and unlimited camera lookup.

ENTRIES • 29,606 headwords (main entries, Taiwanese-Mandarin equivalents, single characters, appendix) • 23,298 senses and 17,906 example sentences, all shown in Hanji and Tai-lo Romanization • Accent variations across 10 regional accents • Alternate, contracted, and colloquial readings • Cross-links between synonyms, antonyms, variant characters, dialect comparisons, and 文白 alternates • 103 subcategories organized by official MoE classification

OFFLINE The dictionary text and category index are bundled with the app — search works offline immediately after install. Audio for words and example sentences can be downloaded per pack and replayed offline.

SEARCH • Hanji or Tai-lo input • Tone-agnostic fuzzy match • Single- or double-character queries supported • Unified search across headwords, example sentences, and gloss text • Wildcard (pattern) search (* / ?) — Pro

SCAN WITH CAMERA (iPhone and iPad) Point your camera at Taiwanese Hanji and the app segments the text using the dictionary, highlighting the words you can look up. Tap one to search — no typing needed.

WIDGETS • "Word of the Day" — a fresh Taiwanese word each day (free) • "Bookmarks" — your saved words on rotation (Pro)

BROWSE Discover vocabulary by the official MoE classification: 23 categories and 103 subcategories ("人事", "自然", "衣食住行", and more).

FAVORITES & HISTORY • Bookmark words you want to keep • Auto-recorded view history (most recent 100)

TRILINGUAL UI Available in 繁體中文 / 日本語 / English. Dictionary content (glosses, examples, Mandarin translations) is reproduced verbatim from the Ministry of Education source — no rewriting or summarization.

ABOUT THE DATA This app reproduces the Ministry of Education's《臺灣台語常用詞辭典》(https://sutian.moe.edu.tw) under the CC BY-ND 3.0 Taiwan license, unmodified. Full attribution is provided in the app's "Credits" screen.