Jyutping
Romanization scheme for Cantonese / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jyutping is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), an academic group, in 1993. Its formal name is the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. The LSHK advocates for and promotes the use of this romanisation system.
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| Traditional Chinese | 粵拼 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 粤拼 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Jyut6ping3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Yuhtping | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Yue (i.e. Cantonese) spelling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yue Chinese |
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| Orthography/phonetic notation |
| Phonology |
The name Jyutping (itself the Jyutping romanisation of its Chinese name, 粵拼) is a contraction consisting of the first Chinese characters of the terms Jyut6jyu5 (粵語, meaning "Yue language") and ping3jam1 (拼音 "phonetic alphabet", also pronounced as "pinyin" in Mandarin).
Despite being intended as a system to indicate pronunciation, it has also been employed in writing Cantonese as an alphabetic language—in effect, elevating Jyutping from its assistive status to a written language.
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| Yue |
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| Gan |
| Hakka |
| Xiang |
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