A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton

A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton is a book written by Wong Shik Ling within a few years before being published in Hong Kong, 1941. It is one of the most influential books on the research of pronunciation. Many Chinese dictionaries later used Wong's Chinese character indices and system of phonetic symbols to denote the Cantonese pronunciation of Chinese characters. Because of its significance, the book has been reprinted many times after its first publishing.

Content

* Indices of Rime syllabus of the rime dictionary Guangyun
* Radical-stroke count indices
* Categories of Chinese character according to distinct Cantonese pronunciation syllabus. It is first ordered by s, second by s, and third by s alphabetically.
* A research paper on Cantonese phonetics.
* A suggestion scheme of romanisation of Cantonese
* An English research paper on Cantonese phonetics, completed in , , 1938.

Some characters with multiple pronunciation are commented with meaning, short notes, or usage in each category.