Hagfa Pinyim, (literally "Hakka Pinyin") is a system of

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used to transcribe Chinese characters as used in

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...

into

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. Hagfa Pinyim was developed by Lau Chun-fat ( zh, 劉鎮發) for use in his ''Hakka Pinyin Dictionary'' ( zh, 客語拼音字彙, literally "Hakka Pinyin Vocabulary") that was published in 1997. The romanization system is named after the

Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...

system used for

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and is designed to resemble Pinyin.

Writing system

Hagfa Pinyim uses the

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and numbers to indicate tones. A single hyphen is used to represent a compound. The vowels listed are conventional forms, however irregular forms may occur.

Consonants

Semivowel

Vowels

Tones

* All words are written in their original tones instead of tones with

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