How do you convert Chinese characters into pinyin with tones?

[twilightwind]

How do you convert Chinese characters into pinyin with tones?

Could someone please help? Thanks.

[Daan]

Hi twilightwind,

just go to http://www.adsotrans.com/new.html and select "pinyin". You could also use software such as NJStar.

Cheers!

[md1101]

geraldc i think it was posted this earlier:

you can use micrsoft word to convert it.

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

[Hero Doug]

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[gato]

Try HanConv

http://www.users.on.net/~aliceyeung/software.php

[simplyolaf]

I needed to understand the algorithm. It is fairly easy to convert most of the characters using a dictionary. For example 她为什么要借钱？ translated to pinyin should be tā wèishénme yào jièqián?

But in my code because I have more than one entry for 要 in the dictionary my translation of 要 is yao1(which is wrong). The problem is to know which translation is correct?

Does anyone know how that works? Or perhaps there is open source software that I can lookup?

Thanks in advance

[roddy]

You need to look at the surrounding context. If the following character is 求, your 要 will likely be yāo. Adsotrans includes rules for this, but I suspect it's the kind of thing where you always need a human eye.

[simplyolaf]

Thanks Roddy. I agree that's what I need to do.