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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cheui1, cheui3 | ceoi1, ceoi3 | to brag |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cheui1, cheui3 | ceoi1, ceoi3 | to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through | ||
| to exhale slowly / to hiss / hush! |
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The cheater boasted that he could turn stone into gold.
He is a great, pompous bladder of a man.
The rich uncle of whom he boasts is only a myth.
I'd been a fool letting him snow me with his big ideas.
Willoughby's boast of his implacable character was to blame.
After a few drinks, he always becomes boastful about his experience.
Tigress sang his praise to her father, and the old man smiled at him.
His stories about his sexual experimentation were more bravado than fact.
It has the trappings of an election campaign in the United States, with slick television ads touting the candidates.
Regrettably, he resorts to the familiar numbers game when he boasts that fewer than 300 state enterprises currently remain in the public sector.
