Thomas Chan wrote:
>
> But is a romanized version of U+6F22 U+5B57 based on the Cantonese
> pronunciation ever used in English writing the way <hanzi> (based on
> Mandarin pronunciation) is?
it could be ... it might even be used as a special term to distinguish
"Cantonese Ideographs" ...
>
> For those familiar with "ASCII IPA", it's /hOn33 tSi22/. (<O> denotes
> U+0254 LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O; <s> denotes U+0283 LATIN SMALL LETTER
> ESH.)[1] Yale romanization would write it <honjih>, a modified Yale would
> write it <hon3ji6>, etc.
>
I think that modern uses of romanized Cantonese are few and far between
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