Chinese Pinyin 3rd-tone diacritical mark in OS High Sierra

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Chinese Pinyin 3rd-tone diacritical mark in OS High Sierra

Users who speak both Chinese and English, help! On my old Mac, pressing "Option" and "v" together, then a vowel, allowed me to type a vowel with a "v" on top of it, which is how the third tone is written in the Hanyu (Chinese) Pinyin Romanization system. On my new MacBook (OS High Sierra), when I press "option" and "v" together, I get a square root symbol instead. How do I write vowels with a "v" diacritical mark on top in this new OS?

MacBook, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 8:47 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Dec 4, 2018 7:17 PM in response to hilary281

hilary281 wrote:

How do I write vowels with a "v" diacritical mark on top in this new OS?

You have to go to system preferences/keyboard/input sources and make sure you have ABC Extended (formerly US Extended) on the list, and then select that one in the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen.

It was this way in all earlier versions of MacOS as well. You cannot make either ā or ǎ with the US input source.

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hilary281 Author

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Dec 4, 2018 7:18 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thank you! I had it on US but needed to put it in ABC Extended.

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Chinese Pinyin 3rd-tone diacritical mark in OS High Sierra

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