Sidney Lau romanisation

This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Sidney Lau romanisation is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:

Related Sponsors

BM Pharmacy Generic pharmaceuticals at unbeatable prices. Insomnia, men's health, hair health, pain control. bmpharmacy.com
Online Pharmacy Carisoprodol, tadalafil, sildenafil, vardenafil and more... xlpharmacy.com
MedBasket.com Discreet. Inexpensive. Fast shipping. Great selection. What more can we say? medbasket.com
Frugalmed 2000 reasons to shop with us first. frugalmed.com
Ads by Tiva

Chinese romanization
Mandarin for Standard Mandarin
    Hanyu Pinyin (ISO standard)
    EFEO
    Gwoyeu Romatzyh
        Spelling conventions
    Latinxua Sin Wenz
    Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II
    Chinese Postal Map Romanization
    Tongyong Pinyin
    Wade-Giles
    Yale
    Legge romanization
    Simplified Wade
    Comparison chart
Cantonese for Standard Cantonese
    Guangdong Romanization
    Hong Kong Government
    Jyutping
    Meyer-Wempe
    Sidney Lau
    S. L. Wong (phonetic symbols)
    S. L. Wong (romanisation)
    Standard Cantonese Pinyin
    Standard Romanization
    Yale
    Barnett-Chao
Wu
    Long-short (romanization)
Min Nan
for Taiwanese, Amoy, and related
    Pe̍h-oē-jī
For Hainanese
    Hainanhua Pinyin Fang'an
For Teochew
    Peng'im
Min Dong for Fuzhou dialect
    Foochow Romanized
Hakka for Moiyan dialect
    Kejiahua Pinyin Fang'an
For Siyen dialect
    Phak-fa-sṳ
See also:
   General Chinese (Chao Yuenren)
   Cyrillization
   Xiao'erjing
   Bopomofo
   Romanisation in Singapore
   Romanisation in the ROC (Taiwan)
This box: view • talk • 
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.

Sidney Lau is a system of romanisation for Standard Cantonese, developed by Sidney Lau for teaching Cantonese. It was developed for use in Cantonese radio, and is essentially an adaptation of the Meyer-Wempe romanisation.

Contents

Initials

b
[p]		 p
[pʰ]		 m
[m]		 f
[f]
d
[t]		 t
[tʰ]		 n
[n]		 l
[l]
g
[k]		 k
[kʰ]		 ng
[ŋ]		 h
[h]
j
[ts]		 ch
[tsʰ]		 s
[s]		  
gw
[kw]		 kw
[kʰw]		 y
[j]		 w
[w]

Finals

a
[aː]		 aai
[aːi]		 aau
[aːu]		 aam
[aːm]		 aan
[aːn]		 aang
[aːŋ]		 aap
[aːp]		 aat
[aːt]		 aak
[aːk]
  ai
[ɐi]		 au
[ɐu]		 am
[ɐm]		 an
[ɐn]		 ang
[ɐŋ]		 ap
[ɐp]		 at
[ɐt]		 ak
[ɐk]
e
[ɛː]		 ei
[ei]		       eng
[ɛːŋ]		     ek
[ɛːk]
i
[iː]		   iu
[iːu]		 im
[iːm]		 in
[iːn]		 ing
[ɪŋ]		 ip
[iːp]		 it
[iːt]		 ik
[ɪk]
oh
[ɔː]		 oi
[ɔːi]		 o
[ou]		   on
[ɔːn]		 ong
[ɔːŋ]		   ot
[ɔːt]		 ok
[ɔːk]
oo
[uː]		 ooi
[uːi]		     oon
[uːn]		 ung
[ʊŋ]		   oot
[uːt]		 uk
[ʊk]
euh
[œː]		   ui
[ɵy]		   un
[ɵn]		 eung
[œːŋ]		   ut
[ɵt]		 euk
[œːk]
ue
[yː]		       uen
[yːn]		     uet
[yːt]		  

Tones

Seven tones are indicated using superscripted numbers.

Tone description Marking
high falling 1 a1
middle rising 2 a2
middle level 3 a3
high level 10 a^{1^0}
low falling 4 a4
low rising 5 a5
low level 6 a6

External links

Wikipedia content modification information:

  • This page was last modified on 27 September 2008, at 18:00.

Wikipedia Authorship and Review

Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.

Wikipedia Usage Guidelines

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Sidney Lau romanisation".

The URL for this specific entry is:

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.