Standard Cantonese Pinyin is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Yu Bingzhao (ch. 余秉昭) in 1971, modified by Education Department (merged into the Education and Manpower Bureau now) and Zhan Bohiu (ch. 詹伯慧). Its formal name in chinese is 《常用字廣州話讀音表》拼音方案, and its short form is 「教院式」拼音方案. It was used by Tongyin zihui (ch. 《同音字彙》), Cantonese Pronunciation list of Chinese Characters in Common Use (ch. 《常用字廣州話讀音表》, Dictionary of Standard Cantonese Pronunciation (ch. 《廣州話正音字典》), List of Chinese Characters in Common Use for Primary education (ch. 《小學中文科常用字表》). It was the only romanization system that accepted by Education and Manpower Bureau of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority. The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... Phonetic (pho-NET-ic) is a nationwide voicemail-to-text messaging service available for most digital mobile phones in which a subscriber is provided a custom voice mailbox for the purpose of receiving all incoming voice messages as actual transcribed text for reading via short messaging (also known as SMS... Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ... In linguistics, romanization or latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, where the original word or language used a different writing system. ... Standard Cantonese is a variant of Cantonese and is generally considered the prestige dialect of Cantonese. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The Education and Manpower Bureau (Traditional Chinese: 香港教育統籌局; Hanyu pinyin: XiānggÇŽng JiàoyùtÇ’ngchóujú; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 gaau3 juk6 tung2 cau4 guk6; abbr. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... The Education and Manpower Bureau (Traditional Chinese: 香港教育統籌局; Hanyu pinyin: XiānggÇŽng JiàoyùtÇ’ngchóujú; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 gaau3 juk6 tung2 cau4 guk6; abbr. ... Established in 1977, the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA, 香港考試及評核局) (previously known as Hong Kong Examinations Authority, HKEA) was put in charge of administration the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) the following year. ...

Its English name Standard Cantonese Pinyin is denominate from Dictionary of Standard Cantonese Pronunciation . But its Chinese name is denominate from Cantonese Pronunciation list of Chinese Characters in Common Use, and its short form in Chinese means "the pinyin style of Hong Kong Education and Manpower Bureau"

Pinyin System

The Standard Cantonese Pinyin system is directly corresponding to the IPA system (free style) used by S. L. Wong (ch. 黃錫凌) in A Chinese syllabary pronounced according to the dialect of Canton (ch. 《粵音韻彙》). If the IPA symbol is contained in the 26 Latin alphabet, just use it directly. If the IPA symbol is not contained in the Latin alphabet, convert it into Latin letter : /a/→aa, /ɐ/→a, /ɛ/→e, /ɔ/→o, /œ/→oe, /ŋ/→ng. So it is easy to learn and type, at the same time it is academic. In the following table, the first row inside a square stands for the Standard Cantonese Pinyin, the second row stands for the IPA (exact style), the third row stands for IPA (free style). The IPA system (free style) in Cantonese is created by S. L. Wong (ch. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ...

Initials

Finals

• The finals m and ng can only be used as standalone nasal syllables.

A nasal consonant is produced when the velum—that fleshy part of the palate near the back—is lowered, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. ...

Tones

Standard Cantonese has nine tones in six distinct tone contours. This article or section uses Ruby annotation. ... The tone contours of Standard Mandarin Tone contours are numbers that represent the way pitch varies over a syllable. ...

Tones in Chinese derive from the traditional Middle Chinese tone classes, known as Ping Sheng (平聲), Shang Sheng (上聲), Qu Sheng (去聲), and Ru Sheng (入聲), which in English in the linguistic literature, are sometimes called the level, rising, departing and entering tones. ... The tone contours of Standard Mandarin Tone contours are numbers that represent the way pitch varies over a syllable. ...

Compare with Yale Romanization

Standard Cantonese Pinyin and the Yale romanization system represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in: The Yale Romanizations are four systems created during World War II by the United States for its soldiers. ...

• The initials: b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, ng, h, s, gw, kw, w.
• The vowel: aa (except when using alone), a, e, i, o, u.
• The nasal consonant: m, ng.
• The coda: i (except of being the coda [y] in Yale), u, m, n, ng, p, t, k.

But they have difference with the following exceptions: The initial, also called the onset, or in Chinese shengmu (PY: shēngmǔ, TC: 聲母, SC: 声母), is an important concept in the phonological study of Chinese languages. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-18, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... A nasal consonant is produced when the velum—that fleshy part of the palate near the back—is lowered, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...

• The vowels oe represent [ɵ] and [œː] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while the eu represents both vowels in Yale.
• The vowel y represent [y] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while both yu (use in nucleus) and i (use in coda) is used in Yale.
• The initial j represents [j] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while y is used instead in Yale.
• The initial dz represents [ts] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while j is used instead in Yale.
• The initial ts represents [tsʰ] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while ch is used instead in Yale.
• In Standard Cantonese Pinyin, if no consonant precedes the vowel y, then the initial j is appended before the vowel. In Yale, the corresponding initial yu is never appended before yu under any circumstances.
• Some new finals can be written in Standard Cantonese Pinyin is not contained in Yale romanization schemes, such as: eu [ɛːu], em [ɛːm], and ep [ɛːp]. These three finals are used in colloquial Cantonese words, such as deu6 (掉), lem2 (舐), and gep9 (夾).
• To represent tones, only tone numbers are used in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while Yale originally uses tone marks together with the letter h (though tone numbers can be used in Yale as well).

Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-18, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... In phonetics and phonology, the nucleus is the central part of the syllable, mostly commonly a vowel. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... The initial, also called the onset, or in Chinese shengmu (PY: shēngmǔ, TC: 聲母, SC: 声母), is an important concept in the phonological study of Chinese languages. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-20, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... The final, also called the rhyme, or in Chinese yunmu (PY: yùnmǔ, TC: 韻母, SC: 韵母), is an important concept in the phonological study of Chinese languages. ... This article or section uses Ruby annotation. ...

Compare with Jyutping

Standard Cantonese Pinyin and Jyutping represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in: Jyutping (Traditional Chinese: 粵拼; Simplified Chinese: 粤拼; pinyin: yuèpīn; Yale: yuhtpīng; sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ...

• The initials: b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, ng, h, s, gw, kw, j, w.
• The vowel: aa, a, e, i, o, u.
• The nasal consonant: m, ng.
• The coda: i (except of being the coda [y] in Jyutping), u, m, n, ng, p, t, k.

But they have difference with the following exceptions: The initial, also called the onset, or in Chinese shengmu (PY: shēngmǔ, TC: 聲母, SC: 声母), is an important concept in the phonological study of Chinese languages. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-18, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... A nasal consonant is produced when the velum—that fleshy part of the palate near the back—is lowered, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...

• The vowels oe represent [ɵ] and [œː] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while the eo and oe represent [ɵ] and [œː] respectively in Jyutping.
• The vowel y represent [y] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while both yu (use in nucleus) and i (use in coda) is used in Jyutping.
• The initial dz represents [ts] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while z is used instead in Jyutping.
• The initial ts represents [tsʰ] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while c is used instead in Jyutping.
• To represent tones, number 1 to 9 are usually used in Standard Cantonese Pinyin, although use 1, 3, 6 to replace 7, 8, 9 is acceptable. However, only number 1 to 6 are used in Jyutping.

Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-18, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... In phonetics and phonology, the nucleus is the central part of the syllable, mostly commonly a vowel. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... This article or section uses Ruby annotation. ...

Examples

Try to write an old Chinese poem: Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ...

External links

• Website of Standard Chinese in Hong Kong
• List of Chinese Characters in Common Use for Primary education
• Self-Learning materials of Hong Kong Institute of Education
• an IME software using Standard Cantonese Pinyin