A package that adds support for easily typing Pinyin Mandarin Romanization characters. Transcribing the tones involve adding diacritics above vowels. This is difficult with a conventional QWERTY keyboard, and so this espanso package adds easy mnemonic support to type tones.
The mnemonic is:
- Type the vowel character
- Press <kbd>SHIFT</kbd>
- Type the "backslash" <kbd>\</kbd> character
- Type the number of the tone you wish to add (e.g. 3)
- Release <kbd>SHIFT</kbd>
For example, to type ě, type <kbd>e</kbd>, <kbd>shift<kbd>\</kbd><kbd>3</kbd></kbd>
| Character | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| ā | a|! |
| á | a|@ |
| ǎ | a|# |
| à | a|$ |
| ē | e|! |
| é | e|@ |
| ě | e|# |
| è | e|$ |
| ī | i|! |
| í | i|@ |
| ì | i|$ |
| ǐ | i|# |
| ō | o|! |
| ó | o|@ |
| ǒ | o|# |
| ò | o|$ |
| ū | u|! |
| ú | u|@ |
| ǔ | u|# |
| ù | u|$ |
| ǖ | u:|! |
| ǘ | u:|@ |
| ǚ | u:|# |
| ǜ | u:|$ |