Jyutping

Jyutping
Jyutping Romanization
Traditional Chinese粵拼
Simplified Chinese粤拼
Jyutpingjyut6 ping3
Cantonese YaleYuhtping
Literal meaningYue (i.e. Cantonese) spelling
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYuèpīn
Bopomofoㄩㄝˋ ㄆㄧㄣ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhYuehpin
Wade–GilesYüeh4-pʻin1
Tongyong PinyinYuè-pin
IPA[ɥê.pʰín]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationYuhtping
Jyutpingjyut6 ping3
Canton Romanizationyüd6 ping3
IPA[jyt̚˨.pʰɪŋ˧]

The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme,[note 1] 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, 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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