To type pinyin with tone marks on your Mac device, you'll need to do three things:. Add the 'ABC - Extended' keyboard to your input methods. Switch your input method to this keyboard. Type the vowels with the correct tone marks.

1. Chinese Pinyin input or macro: When using a Pinyin input method (or my Pinyin macros for Word and Excel ) in Windows, Mac, Linux, or almost any other operating system, if you don't have u-with-diaeresis on your keyboard, then type the letter 'v' like this.
2. How to Change Language in Word for Mac. The display and keyboard layout languages used in Office for Mac are the same as the ones for the operating system. You cannot use separate languages for the OS and Office applications. However, you can specify a different proofing language for Office for Mac.

Copy and Paste

The easiest way I’ve found to do it (in small doses) is to copy and paste. I personally have a Word document call “pinyin tones” and that’s all that’s in it. Download it here if you want it too:

Pinyin Tones (7,575 hits)

Type Pinyin

Otherwise, if you have to do a whole lot of typing pinyin I suggest using a tool at www.xuezhongwen.net. After you get past the splash screen, click on “拼音 Type Pīnyīn” in the menu inside the left side-bar. You type “hao3” and you get “hǎo.” Very cool.

There is also apparently a tool called Wenlin that let’s you type pinyin with tone markings, but I’ve never used it (see Mark Swofford’s post about Wenlin).

Web Site Encoding

If you want to put pinyin on a website, and you want to be able to tweak the settings, use this tool by Mark Swofford. It will take “hao3” and convert it to “hǎo”. The only bad thing about it is it doesn’t remember your line breaks–but I’ve learned to cope.

MS Word Macro

(see Wanted: Convert Tone Numbers in Microsoft Word)

Other Tools

(see comments below for other suggestions from readers)

Note: Until a more complete in-house guide is made for this, see the external tutorials and resources at the bottom of the page.

See the directions under your operating system to quickly get your web browser to display Chinese characters.

Cross Platform[edit]

• Make sure you have a Chinese font available. Find somewhere to look at the font lists, and see if you can see something like Chinese characters. If you have one, make it the default in your browser and check.
• If you don't have a Chinese font:

1. Download A font as in #Programs.
2. Install the font. Use right-click install on Windows, the Font Book in Mac OS, or the method provided by your desktop environment in Linux.
3. Make it the default selection in your browser. Just choose your favourite.

Windows[edit]

Windows Vista[edit]

Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista displays Chinese characters properly without any configuration.

For program written in non-Unicode, go to Control Panel --> Regional and Language Options --> Administrative tab --> Language for non-Unicode programs, set it to whatever Chinese language you want.

Windows XP[edit]

If Chinese character't display properly for you, first check if you need to install East Asian language support files. To do this:

1. Click Start > Control Panel. Select the Date, Time, Regional and Language Options category, then click Regional and Language Options.
2. On the Languages tab, select the checkbox labeled Install files for East Asian languages.
3. Click OK when a dialog box appears informing you of the storage requirements for the language files (230 MB).
4. Click OK on the Languages tab.
5. Another dialog box appears requesting a Windows XP installation disk or network share location where the language support files are located. Insert a Windows XP installation CD or browse to the appropriate network location, and click OK. Windows may not always ask for a installation CD. Microsoft Windows installs the necessary files and prompts for you to restart the computer.
6. Click Yes to restart the computer.

Windows 95, 98 or ME[edit]

In order to display Chinese characters properly, you need to download two packages from Microsoft.

How To Write Chinese Characters In Word For Mac Osx

If you don't have Office XP:

1. Go to this Microsoft site.
2. Select Chinese (Simplified) - with Language Pack in the dropdown box.
3. Click Go.
4. Download the file scmondo.exe, open it and follow the instructions.
5. Do the same for Chinese (Traditional) - with Language Pack and then tcmondo.exe.

If you do have Office XP:

1. Download this file and this one from Microsoft.
2. Execute imechs.exe.
3. Follow the instructions.
4. Do the same for imecht.exe.

Mac OS[edit]

Mac OS (X) should support displaying Chinese characters natively. If it doesn't work, refer to #Cross Platform.

Input[edit]

1. Click the Apple icon on top left corner.
2. Click System Preferences
3. Click Language and Text icon
4. Click Input Sources tab
5. Tick Chinese Simplified, Pinyin and/or Trackpad Handwriting

(Handwriting feature only available in Snow Leopard or above)

To set up keyboard shortcuts for changing input language

1. Click the Apple icon on top left corner.
2. Click System Preferences
3. Click Keyboard icon
4. Click Keyboard shortcuts tab
5. Click Keyboard & Text Input in the column
6. Check 'Select next source in input menu'.

(Typical: command + space)

Linux[edit]

How To Write Chinese Characters In Word For Mac Os

Linux supports Sinitic fonts in a number of formats. in particular LaTeX CJK, and True Type among others.

Just make sure you are using a UTF-8 locale.

How To Write Chinese Characters In Word For Mac Osx

Tutorials[edit]

How To Write Chinese Characters In Word For Mac Download

Programs[edit]

• Adobe Reader Asian Font Packs - Allows the display of Asian fonts in Adobe PDF files.
• NJStar Explorer - Free web browser with hassle-free CJK support as its goal.
• Source Han Sans - An Apache-Licensed Sans/Hei(黑) font with a huge character coverage by Google and Adobe.
• WenQuanYi - A set of GPL-Licensed Sans/Hei(黑) fonts by fangq and his community.
• I.Open Source Fonts - Artistic Chinese fonts.