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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| syun4 gwo1, wo1 | syun4 gwo1, wo1 | spiral / whirlpool / eddy / vortex |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| syun4 | syun4 | to revolve / a loop / a circle | ||
| gwo1, wo1 | gwo1, wo1 | eddy / whirlpool |
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They were caught up in a whirling vortex of emotion.
The canoe was tossed about in the maelstrom.
She felt she was being dragged into a whirlpool of emotion.
There is a curious feature in the spectra of spiral galaxies.
Then, suddenly, he could not swim. He was caught in a whirlpool.
In Taylor's picture, the eddy is the basic element of turbulence.
Viscosity overwhelms the smallest eddies and converts their energy into heat.
Subscripts Z and E are for zonal and eddy components respectively.
