''A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton'' () is a
book
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written by
Wong Shik-Ling () within a few years before being published in
Hong Kong
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, 1941. It is one of the most influential books on the
research
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of
Cantonese
Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...
pronunciation
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. Many
Chinese dictionaries
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later used Wong's
Chinese character
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indices and system of
phonetic symbols to denote the Cantonese pronunciation of Chinese characters. Because of its significance, the book has been reprinted many times after its first publishing.
Content
* Indices of Rime syllabus (
final
Final, Finals or The Final may refer to:
* Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event
** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
s) of the
rime dictionary ''
Guangyun'' ()
*
Radical-stroke count indices
* Categories of Chinese character according to distinct Cantonese pronunciation syllabus. It is first ordered by
final
Final, Finals or The Final may refer to:
* Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event
** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
s, second by
initial
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s, and third by
tones alphabetically.
* A research paper on Cantonese phonetics.
* A suggestion scheme of
romanisation
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of Cantonese
* An English research paper on Cantonese phonetics, completed in
Lingnan University
Lingnan University (LN/LU), formerly called Lingnan College, is a public liberal arts university in Hong Kong. It aims to provide students with an education in the liberal arts tradition and has joined the Global Liberal Arts Alliance since ...
,
Canton, 1938.
Some characters with multiple pronunciation are commented with meaning, short notes, or usage in each category.
See also
*
S. L. Wong (phonetic symbols)
*
S. L. Wong (romanisation)
Wong Shik-Ling (also known as S. L. Wong) published a romanisation scheme accompanying a set of phonetic symbols for Cantonese based on International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in the book ''A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialec ...
External links
''A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton'' (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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1941 non-fiction books
Cantonese language