Sidney Lau Cantonês Sistema de Romanização
Pronunciation Guide – Initials

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Sidney Lau Cantonês Sistema de Romanização:

In the Sidney Lau Cantonês Sistema de Romanização, Cantonês words are notionally made up of an (optional) initial sound, a final sound, and a tone. The Sidney Lau System uses numeric and symbolic superscripts to represent tones.

Sidney Lau’s Romanization System is also used by Martha Lam and Stanley Po in their Cantonês course “Functional Cantonese”. The only difference is that diacritics are used instead of numerical superscripts. See the section on Cantonês Tones for more details.

Cantonês Initial Sounds:

Each row of the Initial Sounds table contains:

the Sidney Lau System representation of a Cantonês Initial sound,
its quick (and sometimes dirty) equivalent sound in English (for beginners),
a more accurate equivalent sound (if any) in English (for language experts),
a Cantonês example word containing that sound,
the Cantonês character for the Cantonês example word,
the meaning of the Cantonês example word.

Initial Sound	Quick English Approximation	Advanced Sound Explanation	Example Word	Example Character	Example Meaning
b	big	spy	ba¹	爸	father
ch	chat	cats	cha¹	叉	fork
d	dog	sty	da¹	打	dozen
f	fee		fa¹	花	flower
g	go	sky	ga¹	家	family
gw	Gwendoline	squeamish	gwa¹	瓜	melon
h	hat		ha¹	蝦	prawn
j	jump	matching	ja¹	揸	hold
k	kick		ka¹	卡	carriage
kw	quick		kwa¹	誇	exaggerate
l	long		la¹	啦	Final Particle
m	me		ma¹	媽	mother
n	no		na²	拏	take
ng	sing		nga⁴	牙	tooth
p	pie		pa¹	跁	lie down
s	so		sa¹	沙	sand
t	to		ta¹	他	him
w	we		wa¹	蛙	frog
y	you		ya¹	吔	cry of pain

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Copyright © 2009 Andrew White	Created: 19 Jan 2009
Page authored by Andrew White	Updated: 20 Jun 2010

Sidney Lau Cantonês Sistema de RomanizaçãoPronunciation Guide – Initials