Jyutping
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).
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| Traditional Chinese | 粵拼 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 粤拼 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | jyut6 ping3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Yuhtping | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Yue (i.e. Cantonese) spelling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The name Jyutping (itself the Jyutping romanisation of its Chinese name, 粵拼) is a contraction of the official name, and it consists of the first Chinese characters of the terms jyut6 jyu5 (粵語, meaning "Yue language") and ping3 jam1 (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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