The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme, abbreviated as Jyutping.
About IPA transcriptions
All IPA transcriptions on this page are phonemic transcriptions, source of the audio data is 粵典 words.hk. For further details please see Reference.
1. Onset
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Alveolar-dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive |
b [p] 巴 p [pʰ] 怕 |
d [t] 打 t [tʰ] 他 |
g [k] 家 k [kʰ] 卡 gw [kʷ] 瓜 kw [kʷʰ] 夸 | |||
| Nasal |
m [m] 媽 |
n [n] 那 |
ng [ŋ] 牙 | |||
| Affricate |
z [t͡s~t͡ʃ] 渣 c [t͡sʰ~t͡ʃʰ] 叉 | |||||
| Fricative |
f [f] 花 |
s [s] 沙 |
h [h] 蝦 | |||
| Approximant |
w [w] 蛙 |
j [j] 也 | ||||
| Lateral Approximant |
l [l] 啦 |
Null initial is not represented, e.g. “呀” is only spelt as “aa”.
2. Syllabic nasal
|
m [m̩] 唔 |
ng [ŋ̩] 吳 |
3. Final
3.1 Nuclei
|
i [iː] 詩 i後接 -ng, -k [e] 星 yu [y] 書 |
u [uː] 夫 u後接 -ng, -k [o] 風 | |
|
e後接 -i [e] 四 eo [ɵ] 詢 |
o後接 -u [o] 蘇 | |
|
e [ɛː] 些 oe [œː] 鋸 |
a [ɐ] 新 |
o [ɔː] 疏 |
|
aa [aː] 沙 |
3.2 Coda
| Plosive |
p [p̚] 溼 |
t [t̚] 失 |
k [k̚] 塞 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal |
m [m] 心 |
n [n] 身 |
ng [ŋ] 生 |
| Vowel |
i [i] 西 |
u [u] 收 |
3.3 Finals Chart
| Nuclei | Monothong | Diphthong | Nasal coda | Plosive coda | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | -i | -u | -m | -n | -ng | -p | -t | -k | ||
| i | [iː] | i 思 | iu 消 | im 閃 | in 先 | ip 攝 | it 泄 | |||
| [e] | ing 升 | ik 識 | ||||||||
| yu | [yː] | yu 書 | yun 孫 | yut 雪 | ||||||
| u | [uː] | u 夫 | ui 灰 | un 歡 | ut 闊 | |||||
| [o] | um | ung 風 | up | uk 福 | ||||||
| e | [e] | ei 四 | en | |||||||
| [ɛː] | e 些 | eu 掉 | em 𦧷 | eng 鄭 | ep 夾 | et 坺 | ek 石 | |||
| eo | [ɵ] | eoi 需 | eon 詢 | eot 摔 | ||||||
| oe | [œː] | oe 鋸 | oeng 疆 | oet | oek 腳 | |||||
| o | [o] | ou 好 | ||||||||
| [ɔː] | o 可 | oi 開 | on 看 | ong 康 | ot 喝 | ok 學 | ||||
| a | [ɐ] | a 嘞 | ai 擠 | au 周 | am 斟 | an 珍 | ang 增 | ap 汁 | at 侄 | ak 則 |
| aa | [aː] | aa 渣 | aai 齋 | aau 嘲 | aam 站 | aan 讚 | aang 掙 | aap 集 | aat 扎 | aak 責 |
a and oet were added in 2018. Please see here for further information.
4. Tone
| 平 | 上 | 去 | 入 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 陰 | 1 [˥] 詩 | 2 [˧˥] 史 | 3 [˧] 試 |
1 [˥] 識 3 [˧] 洩 |
| 陽 | 4 [˨˩] 時 | 5 [˩˧] 市 | 6 [˨] 事 | 6 [˨] 蝕 |
Tone marks appear at the end of the syllables.
Examples: fu1 (夫), fu2 (虎), fu3 (副), fu4 (扶), fu5 (婦), fu6 (父)
Reference
- Bauer, Robert S., and Paul K. Benedict. 2011. Modern Cantonese Phonology. Vol. 102. Walter de Gruyter
- Mok, Peggy Pik-Ki, and Peggy, Wai-Yi Wong. 2010. Perception of the merging tones in Hong Kong Cantonese: preliminary data on monosyllables. Speech Prosody 2010-Fifth International Conference.
- Zee, Eric. 1991. Chinese (Hong Kong Cantonese). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 21.1: 46-48.
- Stephen, Matthews. 1992. Jyutping 粵拼 - Cantonese Romanization Scheme. The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Available: https://lshk.org/jyutping-scheme/
- 香港中文大學人文電算硏究中心（2018）：《漢語多功能字庫》，檢自 https://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/。