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"]
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| Phonetics: | ||
| Tone colors (āáǎàa): |
| Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| chin1 nin4 | cin1 nin4 | millennium |
| Simplified Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| chin1 | cin1 | thousand | ||
| chin1 | cin1 | a swing | ||
| nin4 | nin4 | year / surname nian |
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It is estimated that the vase is 2000 years old.
Feudal rulers ruled over the country several thousand years.
Many thousand years ago people learned how to domesticate animals.
After 18 thousand years Pan Gu woke from a long sleep.
The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.
Nomads have inhabited this region for thousands of years.
For a thousand years Cimmeria was safe from Goa'uld attack.
We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.
