Chinese Homophone Search
中文同音词查找
Type a Chinese word and search for its homophone.
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About
In Chinese, a tonal language, many words share similar sounds but are written with different characters. For example, 河蟹 (héxiè; "river crab") is a homophone of 和谐 (héxié; "harmony"), a term co-opted by the CCP to promote a "harmonious society" and later critiqued online. This tool converts censored terms into their homophones, allowing readers to infer the intended meaning from context while also helping bypass AI-driven censorship systems.
This tool was designed and built by Qianqian Ye, in collaboration with Xiaowei Wang, as a component of the Algorithmic Censorship Resistance Toolkit within The Future of Memory, a project commissioned through the Mozilla Creative Media Award. The tool uses homophones from this data source.