Hagfa Pinyim (
lit.'Hakka Pinyin') is a system of
romanization used to transcribe Chinese characters as used in
Hakka into
Latin script. Hagfa Pinyim was developed by
Lau Chun-fat (
Chinese: 劉鎮發) for use in his Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (
Chinese: 客語拼音字彙;
lit. 'Hakka Pinyin Vocabulary') that was published in 1997. The romanization system is named after the
Pinyin system used for
Mandarin Chinese and is designed to resemble Pinyin.
Writing system
Hagfa Pinyim uses the
Latin alphabet and numbers to indicate tones.[1] A single hyphen is used to represent a compound. The vowels listed are conventional forms, however irregular forms may occur.
^Lau, Chun-fat (2000). A Comparison of "Old-Style" and "New-Style" of the General Hakka Accent as spoken by the "Indigenous Inhabitants" of Hong Kong (PhD thesis). Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Lau, Chun-fat (1997). Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong, 1997: The Chinese University Press.
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