whykay 👩🏻💻🐈🏳️🌈 (she/her)As an Overseas/Irish Born Chinese (IBC) and been in the tech industry and area for majority of my life, I'm not that versed in Chinese, specifically Cantonese technology terms/phrases/slang.
Note: The pronunciations below are all jyutping, and the Chinese characters are in Traditional Chinese.
The lists below are not in any particular order.
I've collated a few (some I knew already) from when I tweeted out about it:-
- 上網 (soeng5 mong5) - going online / visiting sites
- 軟件 (jyun5 gin6*2) - software
- 硬件 (ngaang6 gin6/6*2) - hardware
- 網頁 (mong5 jip6) - webpage
Ones I've been looking for in the past:-
- 網址 (mong5 zi2) - web address
- 瀏覽軟件 (lau4 laam5 jyun5 gin6*2) - web browser
- 萬維網 (maan6 wai4 mong5) - WWW
- 設計程式 (cit3 gai3 cing4 sik1) - programming
- 程序設計 (cing4 zeoi6 cit3 gai3) - programming
I was delighted to find the following:-
- 打卡 (daa2 kaat1) - grammin'
- 播客 (bo3 haak3) - podcast
- 網頁設計 (mong5 jip6 cit3 gai3) - web design
- 網頁設計師 (mong5 jip6 cit3 gai3 si1) - web designer
- 網絡日誌 (mong5 lok3 jat6 zi3) - blog
- 應用程式介面 (jing3 jung6 cing4 sik1 gaai3 min6) - application programming
- 角本 (gok3 bun2) - script
- 腳本語言 (goek3 bun2 jyu5 jin4) - scripting language
- 上載 (soeng6 zoi3) - to upload (computer)
- 上傳 (soeng5 cyun4) - to upload
- 下載 (haa6 zoi3) - download
- 測試 (cak1 si3) - trial, test, beta (software)
- 軟件開發 (jyun5 gin6*2 hoi1 faat3) - software Development
- 電腦業者 (din6 nou5 jip6 ze2) - software Developer
- 軟件開發人員 (jyun5 gin6*2 hoi1 faat3 jan4 jyun4) - software Developer
- 數據庫軟件 (sou3 geoi3 fu3 jyun5 gin6*2) - database software
- 本土化軟件 (bun2 tou2 faa3 jyun5 gin6*2) - localisation
- 客戶關係管理軟體 (haak3 wu6 gwaan1 hai6 gun2 lei5 jyun5 tai2) - CRM
- 軟件平台 (jyun5 gin6*2 ping4 toi4) - software Platform
- 軟件使用許可證 (jyun5 gin6*2 si2 jung6 heoi2 ho2 zing3) - software Licence
- 開源 (hoi1 jyun4) - opensource (software)
- 開源軟件 (hoi1 jyun4 jyun5 gin6*2) - OSS
- 自由軟件基金會 (zi6 jau4 jyun5 gin6*2 gei1 gam1 wui6*2) - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- 記憶 (gei3 jik1) - memory (RAM)
- 帳戶 (zoeng3 wu6) - account
- 當機 (dong1 gei1) - computer crash
- 死機 (sei2 gei1) - computer crash
- 點觸板 (dim2 zuk1 baan2) - touchpad
- 用家體驗 (jung6 gaa1 tai2 jim6) - user experience
- 窒機 (zat6 gei1) - lag
- 截圖 (zit6 tou4) - screenshot
- 圖像用戶介面 (tou4 zoeng6 jung6 wu6 gaai3 min6*2) - GUI
- 用戶數據 (jung6 wu6 sou3 geoi3) - user data
- 用戶驗收測試 (jung6 wu6 jim6 sau1 cak1 si3) - user acceptance testing (UAT)
- 回歸測試 (wui4 gwai1 cak1 si3) - regression testing
- 短訊 (dyun2 seon3) - SMS text message
- 功能測試 (gung1 nang4 cak1 si3) - functional testing
- 網絡調查 (mong5 lok3 diu6 caa4) - web search
- 平面設計 (ping4 min6*2 cit3 gai3) - raphic design
- 平面設計師 (ping4 min6*2 cit3 gai3 si1) - graphic designer
- 圖像互換格式 (tou4 zoeng6 wu6 wun6 gaak3 sik1) - GIF
- 無線網絡 (mou4 sin3 mong5 lok3) - wifi
- 網友 (mong5 jau5) - online friend
- 網上瘋傳 (mong5 soeng6 fung1 cyun4) - going viral online
- 無線上網 (mou4 sin3 soeng5 mong5) - wireless going onto internet
- 網絡服務公司 (mong5 lok3 fuk6 mou6 gung1 si1) - ISP
- 分佈式拒絕服務 (fan1 bou3 sik1 keoi5 zyut6 fuk6 mou6) - DDOS
- 高技術 (gou1 gei6 seot6) - hi-tech
- 高科技 (gou1 fo1 gei6) - hi-tech
- 技術員 (gei6 seot6 jyun4) - techie
If you know of other techie terms or slang, let me know. And please provide the pronunciations if you can. Thanks in advance. 😊
Great to have translations for:-
- Tweet
- Facebooking
- Source control
- repo
- TDD
- BDD
- Virtual environment
- sandbox (programming)
- Virtual reality
- Augmented reality
- Touchscreen
- QR code
- scan (a code)
- retina display
- text editor (coding)
- data scientist
- data engineer
- visualisation/visualization (data)
- startup
- ecosystem
- indie developers (games)
- remote working
