How to type pinyin (pīnyīn) with tone markings
There is apparently a tool called Wenlin that let’s you type pinyin with tone markings (for example, hǎo 好).
Copy and Paste
The easiest way I’ve found to do it (in small doses) is to copy and paste. I personally have a Word document call “pinyin tones” and that’s all that’s in it. Click here if you want to see all the pinyin tones so you can copy and paste them.
Type Pinyin
Otherwise, if you have to do a whole lot of typing pinyin I suggest using a tool at www.xuezhongwen.net. After you get past the splash screen, click on “拼音 Type Pīnyīn” in the menu inside the left side-bar. You type “hao3″ and you get “hǎo.” Very cool.
Web Site Encoding
If you want to put pinyin on a website, and you want to be able to tweak the settings, use this tool by Mark Swofford. It will take “hao3″ and convert it to “hǎo”. The only bad thing about it is it doesn’t remember your line breaks–but I’ve learned to cope.
If you’re looking for something more than these three options, I suggest checking out Mark’s post about Wenlin.
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3 Responses to “How to type pinyin (pīnyīn) with tone markings”
Ian 何溢恩
said:
The “U.S. Extended” keyboard input allows you to enter in all the necessary accents for pinyin by simply holding down the option key when hitting certain vowel keys.
This is most likely only of any help if you are a Mac user, but may actually work for windows users too, if you are able to find that input method included in your system.
Comment date: Dec 17, 2006
jia qi
said:
how do you type the “u” for pinyin words such as “nu ren”?
Comment date: Apr 5, 2007
Albert
said:
jia qi,
I just figured it out. You have to type “v” and then a number. For example, “v5″ turns into “ü.”
Comment date: Apr 7, 2007