This is a free pinyin converter for people learning Chinese. Paste or type Chinese, and the pinyin appears above each word with a short English meaning underneath. Click a word to see its meaning and its other readings.
The pinyin can be written with tone marks (nǐ hǎo), tone numbers (ni3 hao3), no tones, or as zhuyin. If you would rather not type, open a PDF, Word or text file, subtitles or lyrics, or take the text from a photo or a screenshot. You can also type pinyin and pick the characters. Your browser can read the text aloud, and you can copy the result, download it as a Word file or print it.
Everything, including the reading of photos, happens in your browser and nothing is sent to our servers. The project also has a browser extension that shows pinyin on web pages.