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Chinese

Use a Chinese field to display Chinese text with optional pinyin annotations. Annotation visibility lets you practice reading before checking pronunciation.

Set up a Chinese field

  1. Add a Chinese field to the template and choose its side.
  2. Open the gear button and choose Chinese Type: Traditional or Simplified.
  3. Turn on Show Pinyin if you want pronunciation annotations.
  4. Choose an Annotation Setting, then save the template.
  5. Enter Chinese text in a card, such as 你好, and check Full Preview before saving.

Chinese Type selects the generated pronunciation profile: Traditional uses the Taiwan profile, and Simplified uses the Mainland profile. It does not translate your study content or rewrite the characters you entered.

Choose when pinyin appears

Annotation settingBehavior
HintLong-press to show the annotation
AlwaysKeep annotations visible
Back onlyShow annotations on the back face
OffHide annotations

The Show Pinyin switch also needs to be enabled for pinyin to appear. For a word shown on both faces, Back only lets you try reading the front first.

Correct a reading

  1. Enter the card's text before opening its field settings.
  2. Under Pinyin Override, locate the character/token whose reading needs correction.
  3. Enter the intended pinyin in its input. The generated reading appears as a placeholder.
  4. Return to the card editor, preview, and save.

Overrides are specific to that card's text. They are not a deck-wide pronunciation dictionary. Check them again after substantially changing the source text.

Pinyin annotations do not themselves create audio. Add a TTS field referencing the Chinese field if you also want speech.