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Also known as Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme

The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme, also known as Jyutping, is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed in 1993 by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK).

Key facts

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Jyutping Romanization
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Yuèpīn
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ㄩㄝˋ ㄆㄧㄣ
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Yuehpin
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Yuhtping
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jyut6 ping3
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yüd6 ping3
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Yue (i.e. Cantonese) spelling
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Yuè-pin

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Encyclopedic overview

14 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Initials
  • Finals
  • Tones
  • Comparison with Yale romanisation
  • Comparison with ILE romanisation
  • Examples
  • Jyutping input method
  • List of Jyutping keyboard input utilities
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme, also known as Jyutping, is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed in 1993 by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK).

The name Jyutping (itself the Jyutping romanisation of its Chinese name, ) is a contraction of the official name, and it consists of the first Chinese characters of the terms jyut6 jyu5 () and ping3 jam1 (; pronounced pīnyīn in Mandarin).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jyutping” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.