Template:Chinese tone letter/doc

This template renders a pitch contour in the numerical tone notation of Yuen Ren Chao as an IPA tone letter.

Usage
The template takes one positional parameter:, where the pitch contour is specified as a string of up to three numbers in the range 1 to 5 (lowest to highest). This is the convention for Chinese and other Asian languages; pitch numbers follow different conventions for African and meso-American languages.

For example, the four tones of Standard Chinese may be rendered as: