Jyutping

Jyutping (; Mandarin Chinese in Hanyu Pinyin: yuèpīn; Cantonese Chinese in Yale: yuhtpīng; Cantonese Chinese in Jyutping: jyut6ping3; 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 yuèyǔ (粵語; Cantonese) and pīnyīn (拼音; romanization).

There are nine tones in six distinct tone contours in Cantonese.

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 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	21 / 11	13	22	5	3	2
Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	1	3	6
Character Example	分	粉	訓	焚	奮	份	忽	發	佛
Example	fan1	fan2	fan3	fan4	fan5	fan6	fat1	faat3	fat6

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

But they have difference 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: eu , em , and ep . 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).

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

But they have difference with the following exceptions:

The vowels oe represent and in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while the eo and oe represent and respectively in Jyutping.
The vowel y represent in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while both yu (use in nucleus) and i (use in coda) is used in Jyutping.
The initial dz represents in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while z is used instead in Jyutping.
The initial ts represents in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while c is used instead in Jyutping.
To represent tones, number 1 to 9 are usually used in Standard Cantonese Pinyin, although use 1, 3, 6 to replace 7, 8, 9 is acceptable. However, only number 1 to 6 are used in Jyutping.

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