Jyutping

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Jyutping
Jyutping Romanization
Traditional Chinese	粵拼
Simplified Chinese	粤拼
Jyutping	jyut6 ping3
Cantonese Yale	Yuhtping
Literal meaning	Yue (i.e. Cantonese) spelling
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yuèpīn Bopomofo ㄩㄝˋ　ㄆㄧㄣ Gwoyeu Romatzyh Yuehpin Wade–Giles Yüeh4-pʻin1 Tongyong Pinyin Yuè-pin IPA [ɥê.pʰín] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Yuhtping Jyutping jyut6 ping3 Canton Romanization yüd6 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 (Chinese: 粵語; lit. 'Cantonese language') and ping3 jam1 (Chinese: 拼音; lit. 'phonetic alphabet'; pronounced pīnyīn in Mandarin).

Despite being intended as a system to indicate pronunciation, it has also been employed in writing Cantonese as an alphabetic language [zh]—in effect, elevating Jyutping from its assistive status to a written language.

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