Jyutping

Jyutping (Traditional Chinese: 粵拼; Simplified Chinese: 粤拼; pinyin: yupīn; Yale: yuhtpīng; sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. The LSHK promotes the use of this romanization system. The name Jyutping is a shorthand consisting of the first characters of the terms yuyǔ (粵語; Cantonese) and pīnyīn (拼音; romanization).

Differences with Yale Romanization

Jyutping and the Yale romanization system represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters with the following exceptions:
  • The vowels eo and oe represent and , respectively, in Jyutping while the eu represents both vowels in Yale.
  • The initial j represents in Jyutping while y is used instead in Yale.
  • The initial z represents in Jyutping while j is used instead in Yale.
  • The initial c represents in Jyutping while ch is used instead in Yale.
  • In Jyutping, if no consonant precedes the vowel yu, then the initial j is appended before the vowel. In Yale, the corresponding initial y is never appended before yu under any circumstances.
  • Jyutping defines three finals not in Yale or the other romanization schemes: eu , em , and ep . These three finals are used in colloquial Cantonese words, such as deu6 ("to throw away"), lem2 ("to lick"), and gep6 ("to be wedged between something").
  • To represent tones, only tone numbers are used in Jyutping while Yale originally uses tone marks together with the letter h (though tone numbers can be used in Yale as well).

Initials


p
m
f

t
n
l

k
ng
h

c
s
 
w
kw
j
w

Finals

a
aai
aau
aam
aan
aang
aap
aat
aak
nbsp; ai
au
am
an
ang
ap
at
ak

ei
eu
em
  eng
ep
  ek

  iu
im
in
ing
ip
it
ik

oi
ou
  on
ong
  ot
ok

ui
    un
ung
  ut
uk
e
        oeng
    oek
nbsp;   eoi
  eon
    eot
 
u
      yun
    yut
 
nbsp;     m
  ng
     
  • The finals m and ng can only be used as standalone nasal syllables.

Tones

  1. high level or high falling
  2. mid rising
  3. mid level
  4. low falling
  5. low rising
  6. low level

Examples

a href="/encyclopedia/Traditional-Chinese-character" title="Traditional Chinese character">Traditional Simplified Romanization
#24291;州話 广州话 gwong2 zau1 waa2
#31925;語 粤语 jyut6 jyu5
#20320;好 你好 nei5 hou2

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