tone with diacritics: ma, má, ma, mà. Still, the system of Gwoyeu Romatzyh (National Romanization) bypasses the issue of introducing non-letter symbols by changing the letters within the syllable, as in mha, ma, maa, mah, each of which contains the same vowel, but a different tone.

Uses

Non-Chinese

* Teaching spoken and written Chinese to foreigners.
* Making the actual pronunciation conventions of spoken Chinese intelligible to non-Chinese-speaking

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