What this chart is
This is the Jyutping syllable inventory used on this site, grouped by initial. You can search a spelling or a character. Each syllable has IPA, tone, rhyme neighbours, and common characters from the lexicon. Spelling follows LSHK Jyutping; IPA and character lists follow CanCLID to-jyutping. No account. The count at the top is how many spelled syllables this site stores, not a claim that Hong Kong speech has exactly that many sounds in every neighbourhood.
Search 你 to find nei5; search nei5 to open that syllable. Entering-tone finals end in -p, -t, or -k; pitch matches 1, 3, or 6, and Jyutping still writes 1, 3, 6. Zero-initial syllables (呀 aa) have their own group. Jump links under the search box follow initials, including a zero-initial group. The chart is a directory. The converter still exists for a whole line; the dictionary still exists when one glyph has several syllables.
A syllable page is noindex on purpose: there are thousands of them, and repeating a template does not help a reader or a crawler. This hub is the indexable chart. Open a syllable when you want the mp3, the IPA, the tone family, and the characters that share that reading. Come back here when you want another initial. Play still fetches one mp3 per syllable from this host. Searching a character does not upload a passage to convert. The jump row is not a second search engine; it only scrolls to an initial already on this page. Empty search shows the full chart. A query that matches nothing is usually a tone-7 invention, a Mandarin pinyin string, or a character the lexicon never mapped to a syllable we store. Try the dictionary next. If the dictionary also misses, mail the glyph. Do not paste a paragraph into this search box; it is a filter, not the converter.
How to look up a sound you heard
If you know the spelling, type it with the tone number: nei5, sik6, gong2. If you only know the character, type the character and use the hit that matches the word you heard. If you heard a lazy form, try both: nei5 and lei5, ngo5 and o5. If the nucleus felt short, try a not aa. If it ended with a stop, look for -p -t -k and remember the Jyutping tone is still 1, 3, or 6. Do not invent a tone 7 in the search box; this site will not find it.
Use the initial jump list when you are drilling one consonant for ten minutes. Use search when you have a specific word. After you open a syllable, check the character list against the dictionary if the glyph is polyphonic: the syllable page lists characters that can be read that way, not every sense of every character. If you are writing a worksheet, copy the Jyutping from the chart, not a guess mixed with Mandarin pinyin. If a syllable you need is missing, email the spelling and a character that should carry it. When two initials sound close on the street (n/l, ng drop), search both spellings rather than assuming the chart is broken. The hub will not rank which form is “better”; it only shows which spellings this site can play. For a whole line, go back to the converter. For one glyph with several lives, go to the dictionary. This page is the index between those tools: find the syllable, hear it once, then leave.
Not every spoken variant
Rare or dialectal syllables missing from the lexicon may not appear. A syllable page is for matching ear and characters, not a complete map of Hong Kong accents. Play fetches that syllable’s mp3. The grid will not teach sandhi, will not score your recording, and will not replace LSHK’s own publications.
This hub is a table of spellings this site can play. It is not a dialect survey, not a frequency list of Hong Kong conversation, and not an official inventory from a university department. It will not tell you how often nei5 appears in a corpus, and it will not hide lei5 if the lexicon stored it. Independent maintenance means a missing row is fixed when someone mails a spelling and a character, not by a nightly committee. If you need a published academic inventory, cite that paper; this chart is the set wired to our player.
Independently maintained. The hub lists playable spellings, not a census of every Hong Kong mouth. Sources and contact: About · Contact