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Jyutping Pronunciation Guide; 粵語拼盤: Learning the phonetic system of Cantonese; Chinese Character Database (Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect) The CantoDict Project is a dedicated Cantonese-Mandarin-English online dictionary which uses Jyutping by default
Cantonese: 師奶 (si1 naai1) English: Housewife: C9 Example: 你著到成個C9咁. English: You dress like a housewife(C9). The word C9 should be pronounced in English "C nine", which is very similar to Cantonese si1 naai1. It is an easier form of typing the word "師奶" without changing the meaning in Cantonese.
In English, the term "Cantonese" can be ambiguous. "Cantonese" as used to refer to the language native to the city of Canton, which is the traditional English name of Guangzhou, was popularized by An English and Cantonese Pocket Dictionary (1859), a bestseller by the missionary John Chalmers. [6]
A Cantonese syllable usually includes an initial and a final ().The Cantonese syllabary has about 630 syllables. Some like /kʷeŋ˥/ (扃), /ɛː˨/ and /ei˨/ (欸) are no longer common; some like /kʷek˥/ and /kʷʰek˥/ (隙), or /kʷaːŋ˧˥/ and /kɐŋ˧˥/ (梗), have traditionally had two equally correct pronunciations but its speakers are starting to pronounce them in only one ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Cantonese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Cantonese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Cantonese (Jyutping) Cantonese (Yale) Meaning and uses 遍: biàn bin3 pin3: bin3 pin3 the number of times an action has been completed, emphasizing the action's length and effort. e.g. 改了三遍 ， 把课文读一遍: 場: 场: chǎng coeng4: cheung4
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In Guangzhou, much of the distinctively Yue vocabulary have been replaced with Cantonese pronunciations of corresponding Standard Chinese terms. [35] Cantonese is the de facto official language of Hong Kong (along with English) and Macau (along with Portuguese), though legally the official language is just "Chinese".