Pinyin Converter turns Chinese text into pinyin. It is made for people learning Chinese who want to read a song lyric or a subtitle file without stopping at every character.
What it does
- Shows pinyin above each word, with a short English meaning under it.
- Writes pinyin with tone marks, tone numbers, no tones, or as zhuyin.
- Opens PDF, Word and text files, subtitles and lyrics, and reads the text from photos and screenshots.
- Lets you type pinyin and pick the Chinese characters.
- Reads the text aloud with your browser's voice, if your browser has a Chinese one.
- Copies the result, or downloads it as a Word file, or prints it.
What it does not do
It has no accounts and does not sell anything. Pinyin for characters with more than one reading is chosen by a dictionary, so it can be wrong in rare cases. Click a word to see its other readings.
The project also has a browser extension that shows pinyin on web pages.
Where the data comes from
Pinyin is produced with the open-source pinyin-pro library and its word list (MIT license). English meanings come from the HSK word lists and from CC-CEDICT, which is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
Questions or corrections: see the contact page.