#tone marks

Pinyin tone mark placement mnemonic

This seems like something you would pick up automatically over time, but somehow it’s not. At least on my part, I kept having problems with remembering it. There’s different ways of putting the rules, but what works best for me is:

The tone mark goes on the vowel that’s first in this sequence: a o e i u (ü)

Except for -iu, where it goes on the u

⇒ pinyin.info ⇒ youtube: the 6 Vowels for Chinese…