Type in Vietnamese

Vietnamese uses the Latin alphabet with additional diacritical marks to represent tones and certain vowels. This tool makes it easy to type in Vietnamese with all the proper accents and tone marks.

Vietnamese has two types of diacritical marks:

• Vowel modifiers - change the sound of the vowel:
  • Breve (ă) - indicates a short "a" sound
  • Circumflex (â, ê, ô) - indicates a shorter, higher vowel sound
  • Horn (ơ, ư) - indicates a rounded vowel sound
  • Đ/đ - a consonant with a stroke, pronounced like "d" in "dog"
• Tone marks - indicate the tone of the syllable:
  • Level tone (no mark): a, e, i, o, u
  • Acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú): rising tone
  • Grave accent (à, è, ì, ò, ù): falling tone
  • Hook above (ả, ẻ, ỉ, ỏ, ủ): questioning tone
  • Tilde (ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ): broken tone
  • Dot below (ạ, ẹ, ị, ọ, ụ): heavy tone

Vietnamese is a tonal language, which means that the same syllable pronounced with different tones can have completely different meanings. For example, "ma" can mean "ghost," while "má" means "mother" or "cheek," and "mà" means "but."

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.