Table 8.

The six tones of Cantonese (Matthews and Yip, 2011, 27).

High level	55	憂 jau55 ‘worry’
High rising	35	油 jau35 ‘paint’
Mid level	33	幼 jau33 ‘thin’
Low falling	21	油 jau21 ‘oil’
Low rising	23	有 jau23 ‘have’
Low level	22	又 jau22 ‘again’