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Ok, so I'm taking Chinese in school this year. It's pretty cool. BUT, for some strange and unforeseeable reason, I cannot for the life of me find a translator on the internet that will translate directly to Pinyin from English. :rolleyes: Does something like this even exist? :confused: If so, could someone help me please?

I would be forever grateful. :p

I'm not familiar with Pinyin, and the wiki article on it for me was horrifically too long for me to read.

http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html

That might not be what you're looking for, but I'll keep looking.

http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html

That (www.mandarintools.com) is a good site, but also:

http://www.zhongwen.com/

and

http://www.chinese-tools.com/

The last one also has a mouse input character dictionary, so that you can draw characters you don't know the pinyin for, which is incredibly useful.

Thanks. (If y'all see this, that is.)