Jyutping 粵拼 (粤拼)

Jyut6 ping3 · from Cantonese

What is Jyutping?

Jyutping is a romanisation system for Cantonese, devised by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong in 1993, marking tones with numbers 1 to 6.

Cantonese has no single official romanisation in daily use, and Hong Kong street names follow an older, inconsistent government system. Jyutping is the most widely used scheme among linguists, dictionaries and learners. Tones are written as digits after each syllable.

Examples

廣東話 gwong2 dung1 waa2 (Cantonese); 你好 nei5 hou2 (hello); 唔該 m4 goi1 (thanks, excuse me)

Kungfucius says: Cantonese tones written as numbers: finally, maths that helps you order dim sum.