Re: CJKV ideographic, was Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit

[Richard Cook]

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
...