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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| yau1 lyut3 | jau1 lyut3 | good and bad / merits and drawbacks |
| Simplified Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| yau1 | jau1 | excellent / superior | ||
| lyut3 | lyut3 | inferior |
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What are the relative merits of the two?
A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
Every city's got its good and bad points.
The shop sold goods of both high and low quality.
I had no special standard for judging school.
I've personally never subscribed to the view that either sex is superior to the other.
He gave me a detailed account of the relative merits of solitary confinement in various prisons.
