Jyutping Basic

In general, one Hanzi (Chinese character) has one syllable, and syllable can be decomposited to Onset (Initial), Nucleus, Coda and Tone. These components are listed below:

1. Onsets (Initials)

   b  (巴)	p  (怕)	m  (媽)	f  (花)
   d  (打)	t  (他)	n  (那)		l  (啦)
   g  (家)	k  (卡)	ng (牙)	h  (蝦)
   gw (瓜)	kw (誇)			w  (蛙)
   z  (渣)	c  (叉)		s  (沙)	j  (也)

   There are 20 Onsets; Besides the 19 Onsets you can see in the above table, 'Nil' Onset does not use any symbol for representation.

2. Nuclei

   aa (沙)	i  (詩)	u  (夫)	e  (些)	o  (疏)
   yu (書)	oe (鋸)	a  (新)	eo (詢)

   There are 9 Nuclei.

3. Codas

   p  (濕)	t  (失)	k  (塞)
   m  (心)	n  (新)	ng (生)
   	i  (西)	u  (收)

   There are 8 Codas.

4. Tones

   fu1 (夫)

   fu2 (虎)

   fu3 (副)

   fu4 (扶)

   fu5 (婦)

   fu6 (父)

   There are 6 Tones. They are represented by 1 - 6. Note that Tone is written after each syllable.

5. Syllabic Nasals

   m  (唔)

   ng (吳)

There are 59 Finals that are composed by Nucleus and Coda:

The table below illustrates the use of Jyupting:

* Part of the content is quoted from the website of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong and "粵語拼音字表".