Chinese Pinyin Converter
Paste any Chinese text and get pinyin with tone marks — including the tone changes that most converters get wrong. Need to type pinyin with tone marks yourself? Try our Pinyin Keyboard.
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About the pinyin in this tool
Standard readingsBased on the current Xiandai Hanyu Cidian
Where textbooks and older dictionaries disagree on a word (背包 bēibāo, for example), we follow the reading in the current standard dictionary rather than the older one.
Tone sandhi for 一 and 不Shown as actually pronounced, not as written
Before a fourth-tone syllable they become yí and bú; otherwise yì and bù (一个 → yí ge, 不是 → bú shì). Ordinals (第一) and counting sequences (一二三) stay yī.
Neutral tonesWritten without a tone mark
This covers particles (了 le, 着 zhe, 过 guo), the 不 in A-not-A questions (对不对 duì bu duì) and the 得 in potential complements (听得懂 tīng de dǒng).
ErhuaWritten as an r on the syllable
In the “Pinyin only” view 点儿 is written diǎnr. Above the characters, the r sits over 儿 so each character keeps its own reading.
Word spacingThe “Pinyin only” view groups syllables into words
Following the official orthography rules (GB/T 16159), syllables are joined into words and sentences get capitals and ordinary punctuation: 我们去北京。→ Wǒmen qù Běijīng. An apostrophe separates a syllable that starts with a, o or e (Xī’ān). Words are found with a dictionary, so an occasional split may differ from a textbook, and personal names are not capitalized.
Polyphonic charactersChosen from context automatically
Characters with several readings — 得 de / dé / děi, 行 xíng / háng, 还 hái / huán, 地 de / dì — are decided from the surrounding words. In unusual contexts the choice can still be wrong.
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