Sidney Lau romanisation

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Chinese language romanization

For Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin (ISO official)
EFEO
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Spelling conventions
Latinxua Sin Wenz
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II
Chinese Postal Map Romanization
Tongyong Pinyin
Wade-Giles
Yale
Legge romanization
Comparison chart

For Standard Cantonese
Guangdong Romanization
Hong Kong Government
Jyutping
Meyer-Wempe
Sidney Lau
S. L. Wong (romanisation)
Standard Cantonese Pinyin
Standard Romanization
Yale

Wu
Long-short (romanization)

Min Nan
For Taiwanese, Xiamen, and related
Pe̍h-oē-jī
For Hainanese
Hainanhua Pinyin Fang'an
For Teochew
Peng'im

For Fuzhou dialect
Bàng-uâ-cê

For Moiyan dialect
Kejiahua Pinyin Fang'an
For Siyen dialect
Phak-fa-sṳ

See also:
General Chinese (Chao Yuenren)
Cyrillization
Xiao'erjing
Zhuyin
Romanisation in Singapore

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Sidney Lau is a system of romanisation for Standard Cantonese, developed by Sidney Lau for teaching Cantonese.

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]

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]

Seven tones are indicated using superscripted numbers.

Tone description	Marking
high falling 1	$a 1$
middle rising 2	$a 2$
middle level 3	$a 3$
high level 1⁰	$a^{1^0}$
low falling 4	$a 4$
low rising 5	$a 5$
low level 6	$a 6$

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