How to type pinyin with accent marks?

porter208 wrote: To create study materials for Chinese, I would like to type the pinyin, which includes 4 tone marks for each vowel. I can type 3 of them easily ("ù", "ú", "ū"), but for third tone ("ǔ") the best approach I have so far is to go to Wikipedia and copy/paste the character.

Here is a possible alternative method: Set your Apple Chinese pinyin IM to show the candidates horizontally. Then after you type some pinyin, hit the Tab key from one to four times. The pinyin you typed will successively show the 4 tone options, and just hit return to enter the one you want. Below shows "ni" plus 3 tabs.

porter208 wrote:

I've heard that in previous versions of macOS you could use a different input method called "ABC - Extended" that may support this character, but in the keyboard & language settings on Ventura (13.2.1) I don't see an option to add this.

ABC Extended is indeed the fix for this. You should have no trouble finding it via System Settings > Keyboard > Text Input > Edit and then use the + button. It should be in the English category.

Let me know if that does not work.

porter208 wrote:

To create study materials for Chinese, I would like to type the pinyin, which includes 4 tone marks for each vowel. I can type 3 of them easily ("ù", "ú", "ū"), but for third tone ("ǔ") the best approach I have so far is to go to Wikipedia and copy/paste the character.

I've heard that in previous versions of macOS you could use a different input method called "ABC - Extended" that may support this character, but in the keyboard & language settings on Ventura (13.2.1) I don't see an option to add this.

ref: Type Chinese using Pinyin - Simplified on Mac

The current stable release of Ventura including bug fixes, security updates is macOS Ventura 13.3.1

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PS You can do the same thing with the vertical candidate window, but in that case you need to type Option Tab.