Chinese Pinyin Converter

Chinese Pinyin converter turns Chinese text into annotated pinyin, marking tone accents above each syllable and offering a phonetic breakdown panel per character. Paste a sentence and every character appears with its pronunciation — click any character to see initials, finals, and all possible readings for polyphonic characters.

Three Copy Formats

The copy button offers three options:

• Tone marks (default): nǐ hǎo shì jiè — for textbooks, subtitles, and children's books
• No tones: ni hao shi jie — for database indexing, input method reference, or romanization
• Numeric tones: ni3 hao3 shi4 jie4 — tones as digits 1–4, neutral tone as 0 (e.g. 的 → de0)

Numeric tone rules: 1 = flat (ā), 2 = rising (á), 3 = dipping (ǎ), 4 = falling (à), 0 = neutral.

Per-Character Phonetic Panel

Clicking a character opens a detail panel with:

• Initial: opening consonant — e.g. b for 北
• Final: everything after the initial — e.g. ei for 北
• Medial (glide): leading component of the final — e.g. i for 想
• Nucleus: core vowel — e.g. a for 想
• Coda: ending component — e.g. ng for 想
• Tone number: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 0 (neutral)
• First letter: useful when sorting by initial

Polyphonic Characters

The tool lists all readings for polyphonic characters in the detail panel. For example, 行 can be xíng or háng — the annotation shows the most context-appropriate reading, and alternatives appear below.

Sample Conversions