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|$ǖ
u:|!ǘ
u:|@ǚ
u:|#ǜ
u:|$