'Hakka Pinyin') is a system of romanization used to transcribe Chinese characters as used in Hakka into Latin script.
Hagfa Pinyim was developed by Lau Chun-fat (Chinese: 劉鎮發) for use in his Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese: 客語拼音字彙; lit.
The romanization system is named after the Pinyin system used for Mandarin Chinese and is designed to resemble Pinyin.
Hagfa Pinyim uses the Latin alphabet and numbers to indicate tones.
[1] A single hyphen is used to represent a compound.