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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pin3 yan4 | pin3 jan4 | to cheat sb / a scam |
| Simplified Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pin3 | pin3 | to cheat / to swindle / to deceive / to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over | ||
| yan4 | jan4 | man / person / people |
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It is a fallacy to say that the camera never lies.
Unfortunately the portraits were frauds.
He deceived people for years until the police got onto him.
With all my tricks, the blockheads have been too many for me at last.
It's a real sell : the food seems cheap but you pay extra for vegetables.
There was all the usual humbug and obligatory compliments from ministers.
Frank ran dodgy errands for a seedy local villain.
She would have a sense of the undercurrents that flowed beneath the deceptively calm surface.
