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Chinese Online Reading (CORA) Project
Chinese Pinyin Fonts and Layout
The Chinese Pinyin Fonts were designed in October 1996 by Professor Chin-Chuan Cheng (now at City University of Hong Kong).
The fonts for Windows environment for PC’s, and those
for MacIntosh computers can be downloaded from the following URL:
The cpinyin fonts have the following key mapping of the tone-marked vowels. They are given in
the sequence of tone 1, tone 2, tone 3, and tone 4 in that order in pairs. For example, to type i
with tone 1, you press % (i.e. shift and 5). (Alternatively, see the location of the tone-marked vowels based
on keyboard layout.)
a1 a2 a3 a4
` 1 2 3
e1 e2 e3 e4
4 5 6 7
i1 i2 i3 i4
% ^ & *
o1 o2 o3 o4
8 9 0 -
u1 u2 u3 u4
[ { } ]
umlaut
u1 u2 u3 u4
= + | \
and the umlaut-u without tone mark is _.
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This page is prepared by Marjorie Chan based on information provided by
Professor C-C Cheng.
Created 19 November 1996. Updated: 17 November 1997 (with URL revised 10.02.04.
URL: http://ChinaLinks.osu.edu/flyers/cpinyin.htm