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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| chai1 | cai1 | intense cold / frigid / dismal / grim / bleak / sad / mournful |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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淒
涼
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chai1 leung4 | cai1 loeng4 | desolate | |
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淒
慘
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chai1 chaam2 | cai1 caam2 | plaintive / mournful / miserable | |
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淒
厲
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chai1 lai6 | cai1 lai6 | variant of 凄厲|凄厉[qi1 li4] |
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This bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard.
Most desolating were those evenings the belle - mere had envisaged for them.
He looked a forlorn figure as he limped off after 26 minutes.
He had no more imagined to himself the blighted home, and the miserable parents.
The play is a rueful, wry observation about the way we are all subject to the ravages of time.
Love is an utterly bygone , sorry , worn - out , miserable thing with me.
The evening films began to make nebulous pictures of the valleys.
So I stumbled out into dreary snowy Oswiecim.
And so that interview Between Lucie and Sydney Carton has a pathos that wrings our hearts.
In a proper light with proper glasses these parties were sometimes magical and sad.
