Use this tool to add tone marks to pinyin or to convert tone number (e.g. hao3) to tone marks.
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| Phonetics: | ||
| Tone colors (āáǎàa): |
| Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| cham4, jam6 jau1, jau2, jeuk3, jeuk6 | cam4, zam6 zau1, zau2, zoek3, zoek6 | steady / calm and collected / not nervous |
| Simplified Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cham4, jam6 | cam4, zam6 | to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to keep down / to lower / to drop / deep / profound / heavy | ||
| jau1, jau2, jeuk3, jeuk6 | zau1, zau2, zoek3, zoek6 | to wear (clothes) / to contact / to use / to apply |
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She has a reputation for being calm and cool-headed.
The fighters steadily dug themselves in.
Her voice was pitched unusually low to suppress the quaver.
She was a very calm person. Nothing could fluster her.
What amazed him even more than her appearance was her poise.
"Well, go on," said Camilla, her voice fairly steady.
The center threw the basketball to one of the forwards, who calmly sank the winning basket.
The child, flushed and with eyes blazing, was curiously serene.
It has a higher incidence in postnecrotic cirrhosis and hemochromatosis than in Laennec's cirrhosis.
This rather bloodcurdling recital , delivered with the usual Achesonian aplomb, startled the British.
