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
SHIFT - Type the "backslash" character
\\ - Type the number of the tone you wish to add (e.g. 3)
- Release
SHIFT
For example, to type , type , \
ěeshift3Character
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\|$ǖ
u:\|!ǘ
u:\|@ǚ
u:\|#ǜ
u:\|$