Tai Po FC have just played ⚽ match of AFC Champions League Two after Tai Po apartment fire, the disaster in their hometown in Hong Kong

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#HongKongFire
#AFCCL

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Referring to "Cantonese" as 廣東話 (literally “Kwangtung dialect”) may be misinterpreted as "Hakka".

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“Cantonese” was originally referred to the dialect spoken by people around Kwangtung (Guǎngdōng) province’s capital Canton (Kwangchow),

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#Cantonese
#Hakka

Supposedly, 「⿱龍飛（U+2A6A2）」 was actually a variant of the Sawndip (mimicked Chinese characters in Zhuang language) 「竜（lungz）」, meaning "flying #dragon 🐉 (in Chinese mythology)" and pronounced [luŋ˧˩].

#Gundam
#ガンダム

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Since the #HongKong movie "Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In（九龍城寨之圍城）" has been released in Japan without #Japanese dubbing, many Japanese people found out that the #Cantonese word 係 is almost identical to the Japanese word はい, both pronounce [hai] and both means "yes".

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Proposal for transcribing #Cantonese (the common language of Hong Kong, Macau and Kwang-chow) Jyutping to #Japanese katakana.

The archaic #katakana 𛀀𛄠𛄢𛄡 are supported since Android 15, with alternative transcriptions for unsupported platforms.

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Due to layouts, it was changed to "IPA modifier tone letters for Chao's tone bar", so that both horizontal and vertical writing can be done in the correct way 😅

#Cantonese
#Romanisation
#Japanese

My homemade 「声調半丸（tone semicircle）」 is a magical modification of the 「分四聲法（Modifier Letter Chinese Tone）」 of the 《康熙字典（Kāngxī Dictionary）》

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#Cantonese
#Romanisation
#Japanese

Jyutping is based on modern (post-1950s) Hong Kong Cantonese which the distinction between z and zh is lost already, so it doesn't really matter to pronounce either z or zh in Hong Kong Cantonese.

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#Cantonese
#HongKong
#dialect

Because there is no distinction of aspiration (with or without it) in Japanese voiceless consonants, so both 精[t͡s] and 清[t͡sʰ] consonants in Middle Chinese were transliterated to be the same Japanese さ行[s] consonant

#Japanese
#Chinese
#consonant

My message to Zuck

My modification of Jyutping (Cantonese romanisation) with French orthography, hyperlink in the reply below 👇

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#Cantonese
#French

My 🇧🇬 Cyrillisation 🇲🇪 of Jyutping (Cantonese romanisation)

#HongKong #Cantonese #Cyrillic

My 🇬🇷 Hellenisation of Jyutping (Cantonese romanisation)

#HongKong #Cantonese #Greek

My modification of Jyutping (Cantonese romanisation) with 🇵🇹 Portuguese 🇧🇷 orthography, just like Macau's method but using diacritics such as k'/è/ï/ü and others
#HongKong #Cantonese #Portuguese