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Jyutping / Cantonese romanization

Convert Han text to Hong Kong Cantonese Jyutping—HK colloquial readings and place names, with lexicon tweaks (e.g. 剩 zing6, 澳门 mun4); line or ruby chart output.

Output Jyutping line Han–Jyutping chart

Tones Surname prioritySeparator

Case All lowercase Capitalize syllables All uppercase

Defaults to Hong Kong Cantonese readings (including full n-/ng- initials in colloquial characters); output updates when you change options.

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What is Jyutping?

Jyutping romanizes Cantonese with Latin letters—the scheme by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. This tool layers HK-preferred readings on an open-source lexicon (e.g. 剩 zing6, 澳门 mun4, colloquial 唔該), plus optional surname overrides at the start of text.

Tones and notation

Cantonese has six lexical tones (some syllables end in stop consonants); digits 1–6 are written after each syllable, e.g. hoeng1 gong2 for 香港.
Superscript mode shows tones as raised digits (zung¹); “no tones” strips the digit and keeps letters only.
Cantonese and Mandarin are different systems—the same character can have unrelated romanizations (e.g. 行 hang4/hang6 vs háng/xíng).

Other romanizations

Yale and older Hong Kong school schemes use different spelling rules—convert carefully when reading legacy materials.
Hanyu Pinyin is for Mandarin, not Cantonese; names and place names in HK/Macau usually use Jyutping or local conventions.
Guangzhou and Hong Kong Cantonese are largely mutually intelligible but differ in tone habits and lazy pronunciations; this page defaults to common Hong Kong readings—verify proper names manually.

Tips

With “Surname priority”, leading compound surnames (e.g. 欧阳) and special single-character surnames (曾, 区, 仇) use a curated table—handy for name lists.
Polyphones and proper nouns should still be checked in a Cantonese dictionary; characters missing from the lexicon may show no reading.