Jyutping

Jyutping (Traditional Chinese: 粵拼; Simplified Chinese: 粤拼; pinyin: yu?pīn; Yale: yuhtpīng; 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.

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The name Jyutping is a shorthand consisting of the first characters of the terms yu?yǔ (粵語; Cantonese) and pīnyīn (拼音; romanization).

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Pinyin: Pinyin (??, p?ny?n) literally means "join (together) sounds" (a less literal translation being "phoneticize", "spell" or "transcription") in Chinese and usually refers to H?ny? P?ny?n (????, literal meaning: "Han language pinyin"), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcripti...