Jyu (trigraph)

Jyu (trigraph)

Jyu is a trigraph used in Cantonese Jyutping romanization to write the sound IPA|/y/ at the beginning of a syllable, as in the name "Jyutping" itself. Elsewhere, /y/ is written "yu."


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