Reading and Writing Cantonese with Latin Script
tsong kit introduction | table of contents

• Consonants
• Vowels
• Inflection

Warning: This page is not meant to be authoritative and is by no means the last word on Hong Kong Cantonese phonetics. It is a phonemic starting point developed for the purpose of learning Tsong Kit and Hong Kong Cantonese online. It is modifed Guangdong Cantonese.

聲調
sing-1 tiu-4

Inflection
vowels | consonants | table of contents

名稱 ming-4 tsing-1		例字（韻母）		例字（聲母）
		中文 dzung-1 man-4	英文 jing-1 man-4	中文 dzung-1 man-4	英文 jing-1 man-4
		Chinese	Latin	Chinese	Latin
高平聲 gou-1 ping-4 sing-1	high flat	詩	si-1	分	fan-1
高上聲 gou-1 soeng-6 sing-1	high rising	史	si-2	粉	fan-2
高去聲 gou-1 hoey-3 sing-1	high falling	試	si-3	訓	fan-3
低平聲 dai-1 ping-4 sing-1	low flat	時	si-4	樊	fan-4
低上聲 dai-1 soeng-6 sing-1	low rising	市	si-5	憤	fan-5
低去聲 dai-1 hoey-3 sing-1	low falling	事	si-6	份	fan-6
高入聲 gou-1 jap-9 sing-1	high voiceless stop			忽	fat-7
中入聲 dsung-1 jap-9 sing-1	middle voiceless stop			Ｏ	fat-8
低入聲 dai-1 jap-9 sing-1	low voiceless stop			佛	fat-9

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Credits

• 布裕民。牛津中文初階詞典大。牛津大學出版。一九九八年。