Pinyin Dictionary transliterates Chinese characters (or hanzi) to romanized forms. It supports many romanization or phonetic systems including Hanyu Pinyin, Zhuyin (Bopomofo), MPS 2, Wade-Giles, and Tongyong Pinyin.

New in 2.1.1: (7/7/2009)

• Customizable Return key behavior.

New in 2.1.0: (10/13/2008)

• Punctuation marks and line breaks can be preserved.
• Resizable main window and text input field.
• Word segmentation. (Mac OS X 10.5 or later is required.)
• Option to disable tone marks.
• Option to show only one reading for each character.
• Fixed errors in Wade-Giles and Tonyong Pinyin.

New in 2.0.1:

• Fixed an issue which prevented some simplified characters from being recognized.

New in 2.0.0:

• Support for Traditional and Simplfied Chinese characters.
• Ability to transliterate multiple characters at a time.
• Ability to indicate tones by diacritical marks.
• Option to turn off undesired pinyin systems.
• Universal Binary.

System Requirements:

• A Mac with a PowerPC or Intel processor.
• Mac OS X version 10.2 or later.