The chart below shows the difference between S. L. Wong (romanization),

Guangdong Romanization Guangdong Romanization refers to the four romanization schemes published by the Guangdong Provincial Education Department in 1960 for transliterating Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka and Hainanese. The schemes utilized similar elements with some dif ...

ILE romanization of Cantonese The Institute of Language in Education Scheme () also known as the ''List of Cantonese Pronunciation of Commonly-used Chinese Characters'' romanization scheme (), ILE scheme, and Cantonese Pinyin, is a romanization system for Cantonese develope ...

Jyutping The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme, also known as Jyutping, is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed in 1993 by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK). The name ''Jyutping'' (itself the Jyutping ro ...

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

Sidney Lau Sidney Lau Sek-cheung (; died 1987) was a Cantonese teacher in the Chinese Language Section of the Government Training Division and Principal of the Government Language School of the Hong Kong Government. He had graduated bachelor of arts from Su ...

Meyer–Wempe Meyer–Wempe romanization was the system used by two Roman Catholic missionaries in Hong Kong, Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe, for romanizing Cantonese in their ''Student's Cantonese English Dictionary'' published in 1935. Provenance ...

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IPA IPA commonly refers to: * International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of phonetic notation ** International Phonetic Association, the organization behind the alphabet * India pale ale, a style of beer * Isopropyl alcohol, a chemical compound IPA ...

, S. L. Wong phonetic symbols and

Cantonese Bopomofo Cantonese Bopomofo, or Cantonese Phonetic Symbols ( zh, t=粵語注音符號, s=粤语注音符号, first=t, j=jyut6 jyu5 zyu3 jam1 fu4 hou6, cy=Yuht-yúh jyu-yām fùh-houh) is an extended set of Bopomofo characters used to transcribe Yue Chines ...

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{, class="wikitable sortable" , - !IPA !Jyutping !ILE !Yale !Guangdong
Romanization !Sidney
Lau , - , íː , i1 , i¹ , ī , i¹ , i^1˚ , - , îː , i1 , i¹ , ì , i¹ , i¹ , - , ǐː , i2 , i² , í , i² , i² , - , īː , i3 , i³ , i , i³ , i³ , - , i̭ː , i4 , i⁴ , ìh , i⁴ , i⁴ , - , i̬ː , i5 , i⁵ , íh , i⁵ , i⁵ , - , ìː , i6 , i⁶ , ih , i⁶ , i⁶ , - , ɪ́k̚ , ik1 , ik⁷ , īk , ig¹ , ik¹ , - , ɪ̄k̚ , ik3 , ik⁸ , ik , ig³ , ik³ , - , ɪ̀k̚ , ik6 , ik⁹ , ihk , ig⁶ , ik⁶ Languages of Hong Kong Cantonese romanisation Cantonese romanization systems