program/website convert hanzi to pinyin with tone marks?

[James Garrison]

Hi,

This is my first time posting here. I've seen programs that convert hanzi to pinyin without tone marks, or with numbers, but is there anything out there that converts to pinyin with the corresponding marks already above the words?

Cheers!

J

[skylee]

You can use the "annotate" function of www.mdbg.net. Remember to choose "Show Mandarin pinyin tones in results as: ǎ "

Also take a look at these threads ->

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/12-horse-horse-tiger-tiger-slang-and-idioms881

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/2171-instant-chinese-character-to-pinyin-conversion-in-ms-word

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/8195-best-of-chinese-study-tools-studying-chinese-online-and-off

[trevelyan]

http://www.adsotrans.com should have a bigger dictionary, but is probably less valuable for single-character lookups

[James Garrison]

I haven't been able to use adsotrans much in the past two days, after having used it for several days. I can get to the homepage (sometimes) but when I try to get it to annotate I get a page error message. Is there a limitation on how often one person can use this site?

I need to be able to enter a simplified sentence and then be able to get the same sentence in pinyin, with tone marks NOT numbers, and written in the manner that a standard sentence would be written in. So far adsotrans is the only program I've seen that does this.

Cheers,

J

[dporter1465]

NJStar has this function as well - works just fine.

[trevelyan]

haven't been able to use adsotrans much in the past two days, after having used it for several days. I can get to the homepage (sometimes) but when I try to get it to annotate I get a page error message. Is there a limitation on how often one person can use this site?

http://www.adsotrans.com has been up continually. The textbook site has been up and down because of software issues. If the main adsotrans site is down you can always try http://www.adsotate.com.

[James Garrison]

Adsotrans seems to be gone forever does anyone have any UPDATED info about a website that converts a sentence (written in simplified Chinese) to pinyin with tone marks? I don't mean converting a webpage into pinyin, but lettting me enter characters. I know MS Word has a feature that allows you to place the "phonetic guide" above the actual characters, but I need something that will print a pinyin sentence that can be copy and pasted. I'd like to find a website like adsotrans that does this for free, but I will buy software if need be.

I downloaded and looked at NJ Star, but it doesn't seem to have this function, and there are no instructions.

Cheers,

James

[liuzhou]

I downloaded and looked at NJ Star, but it doesn't seem to have this function,

Yes it does.

Highlight the text you want. Select TOOLS, then CONVERT HANZI TO PINYIN. Choose your preferred options then bingo!

[imron]

See also this thread.

I believe Hanconv will also do what you are looking for.

[dporter1465]

You'll find a good hanzi to pinyin annotation tool at http://www.clavisinica.com/resources.html . The pinyin is displayed on a line below the characters on a (printable) separate page. If you're an intermediate or advanced reader, you can also choose a selective annotation option, where only the less common characters are annotated. This helps avoid using the pinyin as a crutch for characters you ought to recognize!

On the same page, there's also a vocabulary extraction tool that allows you to automatically generate a vocabulary list (including characters, pinyin, and English) for any Chinese text. Here too if you choose a higher skill level you can skip the more common words.

Hope this helps!