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Wugniu is a pan-Wu Romanization scheme that is widely adopted by many learners and linguists studying Wu languages. The scheme is (about to be) implemented into Wugniu, however, it can also be used in other varieties. The upside of the scheme is, due to its universal nature, a Wugniu Romanisation is often enough or close-to-enough to give a rough idea of the pronunciation of each and every Wu variety. This page lists the pronunciation and appearance of every single variety covered by the Wugniu Romanisation scheme, as described on | their official website. Note that some varieties, such as that of Jinsha, Nantong, have data but no Romanisation. Those will not be included in this page.

Tones
''Only colloquial pronunciations taken into account. This chart is just a generalisation of most words, hence some tones in some words may have merged into a different category as listed in the chart.''

Initials
The following chart shows the pronunciation of each initial in each Wu language. Græyed-out boxes list letters which do not exist in each lect.

Finals
Vowels in Wu languages have very large variation, though they all have one thing in common, and that is that they have lots of them. The following chart compares digraphs commonly found in Wu languages

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