For second tone, “Option-e” and then the letter. (That’s on my computer now, but I don’t remember at all if it’s something I had to install years ago, or if it’s always there.)Īnd then when typing: for first tone, type “Option-a” and then the letter. If you’re not looking for typing pinyin, then the below isn’t going to help you.įor displaying pinyin on a Mac: System Preferences / Keyboard / Input Sources / + / (choose English) / scroll down for “ U.S. To clarify: do you want pinyin as the end result, or Chinese characters? Shìlín or 士林? There doesn’t seem to be a way to add tone marks here. In order to use Mac OS’s built-in dictionary, I need to type with the Pinyin - Traditional input method. I looked in the resource section but it’s out of date.Ī quick google search got me this far: /Type-Toned-Pinyin-on-a-Macīut that means that US Keyboard is the input method. From time to time I need to type Chinese on my computer.
