Jyutping - Tones

Tones

There are nine tones in six distinct tone contours in Cantonese. However, as three of the nine are entering tones (入聲, Jyutping: jap6 sing1), which only appear in syllables ending with p, t, and k, they do not have separate tone numbers in Jyutping (though they do in Cantonese Pinyin; these are shown in parentheses in table below).

Tone name Jam1 Ping4
(陰平)
Jam1 Soeng5
(陰上)
Jam1 Heoi3
(陰去)
Joeng4 Ping4
(陽平)
Joeng4 Soeng5
(陽上)
Joeng4 Heoi3
(陽去)
Gou1 Jam1 Jap6
(高陰入)
Dai1 Jam1 Jap6
(低陰入)
Joeng4 Jap6
(陽入)
Tone Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 (7) 3 (8) 6 (9)
The tone name in English high level or high falling mid rising mid level low falling low rising low level entering high level entering mid level entering low level
Contour ˥ 55 / ˥˧ 53 ˧˥ 35 ˧ 33 ˨˩ 21 / ˩ 11 ˩˧ 13 ˨ 22 ˥ 5 ˧ 3 ˩ 2
Character Example
Example fan1 fan2 fan3 fan4 fan5 fan6 fat1 faat3 fat6

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