For example, typing "ni hao ma?" will be transliterated as "你好吗?".
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Chinese (中文 Zhōngwén; 漢語 Hànyǔ) belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family [1], which is the world's second-largest language family after Indo-European. Chinese is classified within the Sinitic branch [2] and encompasses multiple major varieties including Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Min, Hakka, Xiang, and Gan.
Standard Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, is spoken by over 1 billion people worldwide, making it the world's most spoken language. It's the official language of mainland China and Taiwan, and one of the four official languages of Singapore.
Chinese is written using Han characters (Hanzi 漢字) [3], a logographic writing system where each character represents a word or meaningful part of a word. There are two standardised character sets: Simplified Chinese (简体字) used in mainland China and Singapore, and Traditional Chinese (繁體字) used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau [4].
Hanyu Pinyin (漢語拼音), officially called the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the standard romanisation system for Mandarin Chinese [5]. Developed in the 1950s and officially adopted in 1958, Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet to represent Chinese sounds, making it easier for learners to pronounce Chinese characters correctly.
Chinese is a tonal language, where the same syllable pronounced with different tones has completely different meanings. Mandarin has four main tones plus a neutral tone. For example, mā (妈 mother), má (麻 hemp), mǎ (马 horse), and mà (骂 scold) all use the same base sound but mean different things.
The Unicode Standard encodes both Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters, supporting proper text rendering across all digital platforms. You can use the Pinyin input tool above to type Chinese characters by entering romanised pronunciations—for example, typing "ni hao" produces "你好" (hello).
Google Transliteration (Google Input Tool) provides phonetic typing from English to Chinese.
Although the official tool has been deprecated, you can still integrate similar functionality using community-maintained packages. Below are practical methods to implement English-to-Chinese transliteration on your website or application.
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