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Jyutping
Jyutping 粤拼, is one of the most popular Cantonese romanization systems, and great for Cantonese learners to learn Cantonese pronunciation. It is published by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ChineseBay.com promotes Jyutping by developing an online Cantonese pronunciation dictionary using Jyutping. You may learn more about Jyutping by going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyutping If you…
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粵語拼音
粵語拼音 (Simplified Chinese 粤语拼音 ) can refer to two things: 1) Jyutping 粤拼 Jyutping is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. Its long official name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. Chinesebay.com is compiling its online Cantonese pronunciation dictionary using Jyutping because it is the easiest…
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What Does It Mean by 囧 ?
How do you pronounce this character? It is very popular on the Web. Honestly, I didn’t learn it at school. It doesn’t mean I was not good enough. I was one of the top students then. However, it means I do need to catch up with the new trendy things as a ‘linguist’ 🙂 You…
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Get Jyutping for Chinese Characters: 生日快樂
Chinesebay.com got the exciting news! Our Online Jyutping dictionary has been officially published. Just add the Chinese characters after http://Chinesebay.com/py/ and pretty enter, you will get both Jyutping and Mandarin Pinyin for the characters. You may play the Cantonese human voice too by clicking “Say it in Cantonese” button or “Say it in Mandarin” button.…
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Cantonese vs Mandarin:(2)
1)Let’s continue to compare Cantonese and Mandarin pronunciation B)There are some Cantonese sounds that do not exist in Mandarin. e.g. Sounds with the ending ‘m’: saam1 三(three)/衫(clothes) caam3 杉(fir) sim4禅（Zen) In Mandarin, they are pronounced as: san1三 shan1衫(clothes)/杉(fir) chan2禅(Zen) From the above, you know that the different characters with the same pronunciation with the same…