| Only Simplified Characters are supported. Phonetic Transcriptions: | |
| Taishanese 台山话 | IPA 国际音标 in brackets* |
| Cantonese 粤语 | Jyutping 粤拼 |
| Mandarin 普通话/国语 | Pinyin 拼音 |
*To save typing, the following simplified IPA symbols are used.:
| Standard IPA | Simplified IPA | Position in Syllable | |
| p/b̥ t/d̥ k/g̊ |
b d g | Initial (onset) | Voiceless Stops |
| pʰ tʰ kʰ | p t k | Initial (onset) | Aspirated Voiceless Stops |
| p̚ t̚ k̚ | p t k | Final (coda) | Voiceless Stops with no audible release |
| ts/dz̥ tsʰ | dz ts | Initial (onset) | Alveolar Affricates |
| æ | ia | vowel (nucleus) | |
| (u)ɔ (u)ə əuŋ | ɔ ə əŋ | vowel (nucleus) | Accent and syllable dependent |
| ? | Ø | Initial | [?] precedes all zero-initial syllables |
Note that although both the aspirated voiceless stops and the voiceless stops with no audible release are reduced to the same symbols, there's no ambiguity because they take up different positions in a syllable. For example, the IPA representation of cut (切) is [tɛt33]. We can deduce that the first [t] is the simplified form of [th], and the second (trailing) [t] is the simplified form of [t̚].