Nôm Na Việt (喃哪越) is the comprehensive platform for Vietnamese Hán Nôm studies.
FEATURES
- Dictionary — Search 27,900+ Hán Nôm characters with readings, meanings, and 45,000+ compound words
- Multi-language Readings — Every character shows Hán Việt, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese (On/Kun), and Korean
- Converter — Vietnamese text ↔ Chữ Nôm with AI-powered contextual analysis
- Soạn Nôm — Compose Chữ Nôm with the built-in Telex IME
- Classical Reader — 31 classical texts with stacked, side-by-side, or classical vertical reading layouts and per-character Hán Việt annotations — including five Truyện Kiều variant editions (1866–1902) with scholarly footnotes, Tam Quốc Chí Diễn Nghĩa (119 chapters), Hồ Xuân Hương, Chinh Phụ Ngâm Khúc, Luận Ngữ, and Đạo Đức Kinh
- Bé Na — Ask an assistant about a character, a reading, or a meaning. Every answer is checked against the dictionary before you see it, and if a character isn't there Bé Na says so instead of guessing (free Google sign-in required)
- Component Search — Find characters by combining radicals or components
- Fanqie Etymology — Middle Chinese phonological data from 廣韻
- Character Classification — See how each character was formed (Sino-Vietnamese loan, phono-semantic compound, self-coined Vietnamese, and more), following Nguyễn Quang Hồng's Tự Điển Chữ Nôm Dẫn Giải
- Handwriting Recognition — Draw characters to look them up
- Camera OCR — Photograph any Hán Nôm text for instant recognition
- Flashcards & Study — 3,990 characters by grade level with Learn, Match, and Test modes plus a progress dashboard
- 8 Calligraphy Display Fonts — Khải thư, Hành thư, Thảo thư, Lệ thư, Triện thư, Nôm Traditional, Tống thể, Hắc thể — plus custom font upload
- Text-to-Speech — Listen to pronunciations in Vietnamese voices
- Offline Mode — Download the full dictionary and use the app anywhere, no internet required
- System Nôm Keyboard — Type Chữ Nôm in any app. Telex, ranked candidates, finger-drawing recognition
SEARCH BY
- Character (漢喃)
- Hán Việt, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, or Korean reading
- Vietnamese meaning
- Radical (214 Kangxi radicals)
- Component decomposition
- Semantic similarity (AI-powered)
- Handwriting or camera
PERFECT FOR
- Students learning classical Vietnamese
- Researchers studying Hán Nôm literature
- Anyone curious about Vietnamese heritage