Jyutping
Traditional Chinese:	粵拼
Simplified Chinese:	粤拼

Jyutping (sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. In Linguistics, romanization (or latinization, also spelled romanisation or latinisation) is the representation of a Word or Standard Cantonese is the standard variant of the Cantonese (Yuet language The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong ( LSHK) is a non-profit academic association which was formally registered as a charitable Organization in Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) 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 contraction consisting of the first Chinese characters of the terms jyut jyu (粵語, meaning "Cantonese") and ping jam (拼音 "phonetic alphabet"). In Traditional grammar, a contraction is the formation of a new Word from one or more individual words A Chinese character, also known as a Han character ( is a Logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi Japanese (

Note that the "j" used by this romanization system is the "j" used by IPA, which is equivalent to the "y" used by English speakers or most Chinese romanization systems. 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Legge romanization is a Transcription system for Mandarin Chinese, used by the prolific 19th century sinologist James Legge. Simplified Wade is a modification of the Wade-Giles Romanization system for writing Mandarin Chinese. Below is a table from pinyininfo which compares the different Romanizations of Standard Mandarin. 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Contents 1 Initials 2 Finals 3 Tones 4 Comparison with Yale Romanization 5 Comparison with Standard Cantonese Pinyin 6 Examples 7 Jyutping input method 7.1 List of Cantonese phonetic methods 8 External links

Initials

b /p/ 巴	p /pʰ/ 怕	m /m/ 媽	f /f/ 花
d /t/ 打	t /tʰ/ 他	n /n/ 那	l /l/ 啦
g /k/ 家	k /kʰ/ 卡	ng /ŋ/ 牙	h /h/ 蝦
gw /kʷ/ 瓜	kw /kʷʰ/ 誇	w /w/ 蛙
z /ts/ 渣	c /tsʰ/ 叉	s /s/ 沙	j /j/ 也

Finals

aa /aː/ 沙	aai /aːi/ 徙	aau /aːu/ 梢	aam /aːm/ 三	aan /aːn/ 山	aang /aːŋ/ 坑	aap /aːp/ 圾	aat /aːt/ 剎	aak /aːk/ 客
	ai /ɐi/ 西	au /ɐu/ 收	am /ɐm/ 心	an /ɐn/ 新	ang /ɐŋ/ 笙	ap /ɐp/ 濕	at /ɐt/ 失	ak /ɐk/ 塞
e /ɛː/ 些	ei /ei/ 四	eu /ɛːu/ 掉[1]	em /ɛːm/ 舐[2]		eng /ɛːŋ/ 鄭	ep /ɛːp/ 夾[3]		ek /ɛːk/ 石
i /iː/ 詩		iu /iːu/ 消	im /iːm/ 閃	in /iːn/ 先	ing /ɪŋ/ 星	ip /iːp/ 攝	it /iːt/ 洩	ik /ɪk/ 識
o /ɔː/ 疏	oi /ɔːi/ 開	ou /ou/ 蘇		on /ɔːn/ 看	ong /ɔːŋ/ 桑		ot /ɔːt/ 喝	ok /ɔːk/ 索
u /uː/ 夫	ui /uːi/ 灰			un /uːn/ 寬	ung /ʊŋ/ 鬆		ut /uːt/ 闊	uk /ʊk/ 叔
oe /œː/ 鋸					oeng /œːŋ/ 商			oek /œːk/ 削
	eoi /ɵy/ 需			eon /ɵn/ 詢			eot /ɵt/ 摔
yu /yː/ 書				yun /yːn/ 孫			yut /yːt/ 雪
			m /m̩/ 唔		ng /ŋ̩/ 吳

• The finals m and ng can only be used as standalone nasal syllables. A nasal consonant (also called nasal stop or nasal continuant) is produced with a lowered velum in the mouth allowing air to escape freely through the
• ^ ^ ^  Referring to the colloquial pronunciation of these words.

Tones

There are nine tones in six distinct tone contours in Cantonese. Tone is the use of pitch in Language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is to distinguish or inflect words A tone contour is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word However, as three of the nine are Ru tones (入聲), which only appear in syllables ending with p, t, and k, they do not have separate tone numbers in Jyutping (though they do in Yale; these are shown in parentheses in table below). Entering tone ( is one of four syllable types in the Phonology in Middle Chinese which are commonly translated as "tone" The Yale romanizations are four systems created during World War II for use by United States military personnel.

Tone name	Yīn Píng (陰平)	Yīn Shàng (陰上)	Yīn Qù (陰去)	Yáng Píng (陽平)	Yáng Shàng (陽上)	Yáng Qù (陽去)	Yīn Rù (陰入)	Zhōng Rù (中入)	Yáng Rù (陽入)
Tone Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	1 (7)	3 (8)	6 (9)
Tone name in English	high level or high falling	mid rising	mid level	low falling	low rising	low level	entering high level	entering mid level	entering low level
Contour	55 / 53	35	33	22 / 21	13	22	5	3	2
Character Example	分	粉	訓	焚	奮	份	忽	發	佛
Example	fan1	fan2	fan3	fan4	fan5	fan6	fat1	faat3	fat6

Comparison with Yale Romanization

Jyutping and the Yale romanization system represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in:

• The initials: b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, ng, h, s, gw, kw, w. In Chinese and Vietnamese, tone names are the names given to the tones these languages use A tone contour is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word The Yale romanizations are four systems created during World War II for use by United States military personnel. In Phonetics and Phonology, a syllable onset is the part of a Syllable that precedes the Syllable nucleus.
• The vowel: aa (except when using alone), a, e, i, o, u,yu. In Phonetics, a vowel is a Sound in spoken Language, such as English ah! or oh!, pronounced with an open Vocal tract
• The nasal consonant: m, ng. A nasal consonant (also called nasal stop or nasal continuant) is produced with a lowered velum in the mouth allowing air to escape freely through the
• The coda: i, u, m, n, ng, p, t, k. In Phonology, a syllable coda comprises the Consonant sounds of a Syllable that follow the nucleus, which is usually a Vowel

But they have difference with the following exceptions:

• The vowels eo and oe represent /ɵ/ and /œː/ respectively in Jyutping, while the eu represents both vowels in Yale. In Phonetics, a vowel is a Sound in spoken Language, such as English ah! or oh!, pronounced with an open Vocal tract
• The initial j represents /j/ in Jyutping while y is used instead in Yale. In Phonetics and Phonology, a syllable onset is the part of a Syllable that precedes the Syllable nucleus.
• The initial z represents /ts/ in Jyutping while j is used instead in Yale.
• The initial c represents /tsʰ/ 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 Articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a Speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper Vocal tract, the upper vocal In Yale, the corresponding initial y is never appended before yu under any circumstances.
• Jyutping defines three finals not in Yale: eu /ɛːu/, em /ɛːm/, and ep /ɛːp/. In the study of Phonology in Linguistics, the rime or rhyme of a Syllable consists of a nucleus and an optional coda These three finals are used in colloquial Cantonese words, such as deu6 (掉), lem2 (舐), and gep6 (夾).
• 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). Tone is the use of pitch in Language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is to distinguish or inflect words

Comparison with Standard Cantonese Pinyin

Jyutping and the Standard Cantonese Pinyin represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in:

• The initials: b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, ng, h, s, gw, kw, j, w. Standard Cantonese Pinyin ( is a Romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by Yu Bingzhao (余秉昭 in 1971, and subsequently modified In Phonetics and Phonology, a syllable onset is the part of a Syllable that precedes the Syllable nucleus.
• The vowel: aa, a, e, i, o, u. In Phonetics, a vowel is a Sound in spoken Language, such as English ah! or oh!, pronounced with an open Vocal tract
• The nasal consonant: m, ng. A nasal consonant (also called nasal stop or nasal continuant) is produced with a lowered velum in the mouth allowing air to escape freely through the
• The coda: i (except of being the coda /y/ in Jyutping), u, m, n, ng, p, t, k. In Phonology, a syllable coda comprises the Consonant sounds of a Syllable that follow the nucleus, which is usually a Vowel In Phonology, a syllable coda comprises the Consonant sounds of a Syllable that follow the nucleus, which is usually a Vowel

But they have some differences:

• The vowels oe represent /ɵ/ and /œː/ in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while the eo and oe represent /ɵ/ and /œː/ respectively in Jyutping. In Phonetics, a vowel is a Sound in spoken Language, such as English ah! or oh!, pronounced with an open Vocal tract
• The vowel y represent /y/ in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while both yu (use in nucleus) and i (use in coda) is used in Jyutping. In Phonology, a syllable coda comprises the Consonant sounds of a Syllable that follow the nucleus, which is usually a Vowel
• The initial dz represents /ts/ in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while z is used instead in Jyutping.
• The initial ts represents /tsʰ/ in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while c is used instead in Jyutping.
• To represent tone, numbers 1 to 9 are usually used in Standard Cantonese Pinyin (as in Yale), though substituting 1, 3, and 6 for 7, 8, and 9 is acceptable. Tone is the use of pitch in Language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is to distinguish or inflect words However, only numbers 1 to 6 are used in Jyutping.

Examples

Traditional	Simplified	Romanization
廣州話	广州话	gwong2 zau1 waa2
粵語	粤语	jyut6 jyu5
你好	你好	nei5 hou2

Try to write an old Chinese poem:

春曉　　孟浩然	Ceon1 Hiu2　　Maang6 Hou6jin4
春眠不覺曉，	Ceon1 min4 bat1 gok3 hiu2,
處處聞啼鳥。	cyu3 cyu3 man4 tai4 niu5.
夜來風雨聲，	Je6 loi4 fung1 jyu5 sing1,
花落知多少？	faa1 lok6 zi1 do1 siu2?

Jyutping input method

The Jyutping method (traditional Chinese: 粵拼輸入法) refers to a family of input methods based on the Jyutping romanization system. Since the Chinese language uses a logographic script — that is a script where one or more " characters " corresponds roughly to one "word" or

The Jyutping method allows a user to input Chinese characters by entering the jyutping of a Chinese character (with or without tone, depending on the system) and then presenting the user with a list of possible characters with that pronunciation.

List of Cantonese phonetic methods

• Yahoo's list of Cantonese IME
• MDBG
• CantoInput
• CantonIM for Macintosh Mac OS X
• Red Dragonfly
• LSHK Jyutping for Macintosh Mac OS X and OS 9 (The page also includes Yale input version 0. Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, Multi-user, Unix-like Operating systems developed in the 1980s 2)
• Smart Jyutping IME
• Waisek Chinese Input Method (緯石廣東話拼音中文輸入法)
• LSHK? (輕鬆粵語輸入法)
• Simplified phonetic? (粵語簡拼輸入法)
• Microsoft Office Hong Kong Cantonese IME 2007 (微軟香港粵語輸入法2007)

External links

• LSHK Cantonese Romanization Scheme
• Jyutping Pronunciation Guide
• 粵語拼盤: Learning the phonetic system of Cantonese
• Chinese Character Database (Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect)
• MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary (supports both Jyutping and Yale romanization)
• The CantoDict Project is a dedicated Cantonese-Mandarin-English online dictionary which uses Jyutping by default
• Jyutping exercises and other resources (only partially English as of 2006-12-17; temporary website)
• Cantonese Phonetic IME (with Jyutping)

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