Use this tool to add tone marks to pinyin or to convert tone number (e.g. hao3) to tone marks.
Although you can use the red buttons to add tone marks, we highly recommend you use the number method (e.g. hao3) for speed and placement of the accent above the correct vowel. [Hint: Type "v" for "ü"]
Note: You do not need to use this tool to enter pinyin in this dictionary.
| Phonetics: | ||
| Tone colors (āáǎàa): |
| Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| gei1, gei2 nin4 | gei1, gei2 nin4 | a few years / several years / how many years |
| Simplified Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gei1, gei2 | gei1, gei2 | how much / how many / several / a few | ||
| nin4 | nin4 | year / surname nian |
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The ulcer had been troubling her for several years.
After a few years'planting, the quality of the potato crop deteriorates.
Their efforts over the past years have been largely misdirected.
Architects have trended toward simplicity in recent years.
The London Evening Standard moved offices a few years ago.
Over the years several similar theories have been put forward.
In the post-war years her writing regularly appeared in The New Journal.
Again, more happily than she had written for years, she jested.
For several years, Bill Wirtz has been performing in small clubs and honky-tonks from Maryland to the Carolinas.
