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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| laap6, lap6 | laap6, lap6 | to tower / to stand straight (of person's bearing) |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| high and steep | ||||
| laap6, lap6 | laap6, lap6 | to stand / to set up / to establish / to lay down / to draw up / at once / immediately / surname li |
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The lofty pagoda stands like a giant at the top of the mountain.
This memorial stands on sacred ground.
We stood on the dark headlands to watch them pass.
The Monument to the People's Heroes stands like a giant on Tiananmen Square.
The great socialist China has towered like a giant in the East.
The trees in the Embankment garden stood bulky against the incandescent Sky - line.
China is a great socialist country; she towers erect like a giant in the east.
Johnston did stand like an iron rampart in the mountains above Dalton, one hundred miles away.
