粵拼：香港語言學學會粵語拼音方案

Jyutping: The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
Cantonese Romanization Scheme

The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme

About IPA transcriptions

All IPA transcriptions on this page are phonemic transcriptions，source of the audio data is 粵典 works.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_{followed by -ng, -k} [e] 星識 yu [y] 書		u [uː] 夫 u_{followed by -ng, -k} [o] 風福
e_{followed by -i} [e] 四 eo [ɵ] 詢		o_{followed by -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] 西需	u [u] 收

3.3 Finals Chart

Nuclei		Monothong	Diphthong		Nasal coda			Plosive coda
Nuclei		-	-i	-u	-m	-n	-ng	-p	-t	-k
i	[iː]	i 思		iu 消	im 閃	in 先		ip 攝	it 泄
i	[e]						ing 升			ik 識
yu	[yː]	yu 書				yun 孫			yut 雪
u	[uː]	u 夫	ui 灰			un 歡			ut 闊
u	[o]				um		ung 風	up		uk 福
e	[e]		ei 四			en
e	[ɛː]	e 些		eu 掉	em 舐		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
o	[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. https://www.lshk.org/jyutping

人文電算硏究中心　2003：「粵語審音配詞字庫」，關子尹主持，“兩文三語敎育網上支援計劃”之工作項目之一，二零零三年一月十二日推出，香港優質敎育基金，存取於二零零七年十一月二十日，http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/。