Ｗe found that Jyutping is the best tool for Cantonese learners to master Cantonese pronunciation and for everyone to type Chinese characters.

It’s much easier to type Jyutping on any device because the Jyutping system doesn’t use tone marks above the letters. Instead it uses the number 1 to 6 at the end of each sound.

Definition of Jyutping

Jyutping is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), an academic group, in 1993. Its formal name is the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. The LSHK advocates for and promotes the use of this romanisation system.

The name Jyutping (itself the Jyutping romanisation of its Chinese name, 粵拼) is a contraction consisting of the first Chinese characters of the terms Jyut6jyu5 (粵語, meaning “Yue language“) and ping3jam1 (拼音 “phonetic alphabet”, also pronounced as “pinyin” in Mandarin).

                           – From wikipedia

Three Parts of Each Cantonese Pronunciation

Cantonese has 19 initials, 51 times and 6 tones. Each Cantonese syllable has three components.

For each Chinese character used in Cantonese, there are 3 parts:  Initial (can be omitted), final, and tone using Jyutping.   

For example the word for learning 学 （ hok3  where “h” is the initial, “ok” is the final, “3” is the tone mark for the 3rd tone)

There’re 6 tones in Cantonese.  (Don’t worry about the 9 sounds 九声 that many people mention. We’ll come to that later.)

Learn standardised Cantonese spelling (LSHK Jyutping) in 52 Minutes

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