Adding Pinyin to Chinese Characters in InDesign or Other Professional Publishing Software Programs

[Ziema26]

你好！

 

Does anyone know if it is possible to add pinyin to Chinese characters in InDesign as seen in the attached photo?  I can already do this in Microsoft Word, but I would like to do this in Adobe InDesign or Affinity Publisher, if possible, as they are more professional in their output.

 

Thanks in advance for any help with this!

 

Jennifer

 

 

[Jim]

This page seems to suggest you can add it as ruby text but also says there's only limited support for pinyin: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/formatting-cjk-characters.html#:~:text=Select the text to which you want to,the Character panel menu or Control panel menu.

[vellocet]

Better to write your numbers as 一到六 instead of 1-6 so they'll get the pronunciation too.

[Ziema26]

>>This page seems to suggest you can add it as ruby text but also says there's only limited support for pinyin: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/formatting-cjk-characters.html#:~:text=Select the text to which you want to,the Character panel menu or Control panel menu.

 

Jim,

 

Thanks for the link! I didn't come across it in my research of the topic.

 

Jennifer

[markhavemann]

There are certain font's that include pinyin on top as part of the actual font itself. That could be a simple solution to look into.

 

Here are some online:

https://ziyouziti.com/index-index-search.html?keyword=拼音

- https://ziyouziti.com/mianfeiziti-355.html

- https://ziyouziti.com/mianfeiziti-93.html

- https://ziyouziti.com/mianfeiziti-61.html

 

The dowload button is on the right hand side (apologies if your chinese is already good enough to not need help wit this this):

 

[Ziema26]

Mark,

 

Thanks so much for your post!  Unfortunately, the links listed above will not load on my Mac here in the US.  I never thought to explore fonts that included the pinyin, so at least I can research them now that you have given me the idea.

 

Thanks again,

Jennifer

[Ziema26]

Hi,

 

Me again.  Just wanted to update the community on my research.  Below is a link to free Chinese fonts that include either the Zhuyin or Pinyin.

 

https://www.mamababymandarin.com/free-chinese-fonts-with-pinyin-and-zhuyin/

 

Thanks again to Mark Havemann!