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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sit3 yan5, teng1, ting1, ting3 | sit3 jan5, teng1, ting1, ting3 | to eavesdrop / to wiretap |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sit3 | sit3 | to steal / secretly / (humble) I | ||
| yan5, teng1, ting1, ting3 | jan5, teng1, ting1, ting3 | to listen / to hear / to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages |
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The police searched the courtroom for bugs.
There have also been claims of continued phone-tapping and bugging.
He heard that they were planning to bug his office.
Police have decided not to lay charges over allegations of a telephone tapping operation.
He assigned federal agents to listen in on Martin Luther King's phone calls.
Modern technology enables eavesdroppers to pick up conversations through windows or walls.
Don't bug private conversations, and don't buy papers that reprint them.
He assured MPs that ministers and MPs were not subjected to phone taps.
