Pinyin guides
Short, practical answers to the questions learners ask most about pinyin.
- How to type tone marks
Type pinyin tone marks like ā á ǎ à and ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, or copy them from our table. Includes Unicode codes for Word.
- Pinyin tone rules
The pinyin tone rules every learner needs: which vowel gets the tone mark, the neutral tone, and how 3rd tones, 一 and 不 change in speech.