CHI110: First Year Chinese: Romanization/Indexing

Guide compiled by Yale University Library to help scholars find Chinese language materials in the library catalog.

This is the guidelines that librarians follow when they romanize Chinese for library catalogs.

Looking for an easy way to type tones in pinyin? Use this online tool and paste into a word document.

Use this editor to generate pinyin for Chinese text.

Lots of background reading about Chinese romanization schemes, and tools to help render Chinese in romanization

Very nice and clean way to learn the tones and pinyin for your Chinese text.

Overview of the Four Corner system devised as a way to organize Chinese characters. Many older reference tools use the Four Corner System, so this guide is handy.

Developed during the creation of the Kangxi dictionary, the 214 radicals were used in many dictionaries.