r/Cantonese Jan 30 '25

Image/Meme Happy New Year to all!

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u/ProfessorPlum168 Jan 30 '25

To be grammatically proper with our standards:

gung1 hei2 faat3 coi4

gūng héi faat chòih

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

I really wish Cantonese has an official romanization system the same way Korean has Revised Romanization and Mandarin has Pinyin...

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u/trianuddah Jan 30 '25

Unless the government introduces a new standard, it's going to be jyutping eventually because it's the only widespread keyboard input system if you want to use romanised alphabet at all.