HK · 2020-01

Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation

Authority

hk

Year

2020-01

Source script

Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) Hani · 500

Destination script

Latin Latn · 215

Language

Yue Chinese

This system is commonly used for the transliteration of place names or person's names in Hong Kong, as pronounced in Cantonese. There will be more than one legitimate transliteration for the same syllable, or sometimes even for the same character. For example, the character 仔 can be transcribed as Chai or Tsai in this system. Some of the choice is context-dependent (e.g. the same character in the place name 灣仔 is almost always Chai, but more likely to be Tsai elsewhere). There will be more variations and unpredictable conversions in person's names, and these conventions need to be hard-coded.

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