Free Chinese pinyin tool
Chinese to pinyin converter
Paste up to 20,000 characters of Chinese and this free converter puts tone-marked pinyin above every character. It reads whole words, so 银行 comes out yínháng and 不行 bù xíng. Hover or tap a word for its English meaning. No account needed.
Paste any Chinese text or upload a .txt file. Pinyin appears below as you type, and nothing leaves your browser.
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Chinese characters to pinyin, with tone marks
How to use pinyin without depending on it
- Read with pinyin off first. Hover only the words you can’t read.
- Save the words you want to keep, not every word you look up. Each one is saved with its sentence.
- Turn pinyin on to check yourself, then read the text aloud once.
- Read the same text again a day later.
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Hear the pinyin spoken
Pinyin tells you how a word is said; audio shows you. Fluentide stories play at five levels with pinyin on, so you hear real sentences at your level. The first three episodes are free without an account.