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AFAIK it's kind of uncommon to print pinyin with tones. Especially since, when Pinyin is used as an input method, you would write hua4 for huà.
by toxik 12y ago
AFAIK it's kind of uncommon to print pinyin with tones. Especially since, when Pinyin is used as an input method, you would write hua4 for huà.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoChildren's books get printed with tones. I think the lack of tones in other contexts is down to no better reason than that keyboards don't have any obvious way to enter them. Using zhuyin would solve the problem neatly, but comes with its own ("made in Taiwan") political drawbacks. It also wouldn't be an improvement in the context of English speakers reading the new yorker.