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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| nin4 doi6 | nin4 doi6 | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nin4 | nin4 | year / surname nian | ||
| doi6 | doi6 | to substitute / to act on behalf of others / to replace / generation / dynasty / age / period / (historical) era / (geological) eon |
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| Traditional | Pinyin | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| 個 | ge4 | general things; it's a catch-all measure word for individual things or units of something both abstract or physical objects |
He still retains the revolutionary fervour of the war years.
In the late 1850s the speed of technological change quickened.
She never lost her respect for the idealism of the 1960s.
British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close.
In a more innocent age, cancer was regarded as an act of God.
He invoked memories of Britain's near-disastrous disarmament in the 1930s.
In the 1980 s this concept was used to buttress several so - called sectoral reciprocity proposals.
Current economic activity is markedly slower than during the go-go years of the mid to late 1980s.
