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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pan4 kwan3 | pan4 kwan3 | impoverished / poverty |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pan4 | pan4 | poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous | ||
| kwan3 | kwan3 | to trap / to surround / hard-pressed / stranded / destitute |
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Poverty reduced him to begging for a living.
Pockets of affluence coexist with poverty.
Bad housing is interconnected with debt and poverty.
It was not the peril but the poverty that her family disliked.
They live in a squalid hut in the poorest part of the village.
He had sympathy with those who were brought low by misfortune.
Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
He stole, lied, deceived and pimped his way out of poverty.
