Cantonese Syllables

In Cantonese, a syllable is the minimum rhythmic unit of a word. As you can see in the image below, consists of three elements: " initial "," final" and " tone". A Cantonese word may be made up of one or more syllables, but remember that each syllable will consist of the above three elements. For example, "ngo5" meaning 'I' has one syllable, while "zou2 • san4" meaning 'good morning' has two syllables.