Comparison With Jyutping
Cantonese Pinyin and Jyutping represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in:
- 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 stop: m, ng.
- The coda: i (except of being the coda in Jyutping), u, m, n, ng, p, t, k.
But they have difference with the following exceptions:
- The vowels oe represent and in Cantonese Pinyin while the eo and oe represent and respectively in Jyutping.
- The vowel y represent in Cantonese Pinyin while both yu (use in nucleus) and i (use in coda) is used in Jyutping.
- The initial dz represents in Cantonese Pinyin while z is used instead in Jyutping.
- The initial ts represents in Cantonese Pinyin while c is used instead in Jyutping.
- To represent tones, number 1 to 9 are usually used in Cantonese Pinyin, although use 1, 3, 6 to replace 7, 8, 9 is acceptable. However, only number 1 to 6 are used in Jyutping.
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