Today I figured out how to insert tone marks over pinyin pronunciations. So, I am going back and adding tone marks to the pin yin words on my past posts (please be patient with me as it may take a little while to do this) and I will use these marks going forward.
For those of you who want to learn how to to this, here is how it is done:
- Go into System Preferences
- Select Language & Text
- Set your keyboard to U.S. Extended
- For each tone, type option plus a special key that will then place the tone mark over the next letter:
- option + a –> 1st tone
- option + e –> 2nd tone
- option + v –> 3rd tone
- option + ` (found below the tilde key) –> 4th tone
So, here is how it will look using ‘ma’ as a pinyin example:
- mā –> 1st tone
- má –> 2nd tone
- mǎ –> 3rd tone
- mà –> 4th tone
Here is the link from Yale University that explains this as well: