Type in Pinyin

Pinyin is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese (Mandarin). It uses Latin letters with tone marks to represent Chinese characters and their pronunciation. This tool makes it easy to type Pinyin with the proper tone marks.

Pinyin uses four tone marks placed over vowels to indicate the tone of a syllable:

• First tone (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, ǖ) - high level tone, marked with a macron (¯)
• Second tone (á, é, í, ó, ú, ǘ) - rising tone, marked with an acute accent (´)
• Third tone (ǎ, ě, ǐ, ǒ, ǔ, ǚ) - falling-rising tone, marked with a caron (ˇ)
• Fourth tone (à, è, ì, ò, ù, ǜ) - falling tone, marked with a grave accent (`)

There is also a neutral tone, which is not marked. In Pinyin, the tone mark is placed over the vowel that forms the nucleus of the syllable. If there are multiple vowels, there are rules for which vowel gets the tone mark.

Simply click on the character you need to insert it into your text. You can then copy and paste your text into any application that supports Unicode text.