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title: Localizing Your Vocabulary for Chinese Dialects
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# Localizing Your Vocabulary for Chinese Dialects

Apply emphasis markers to your pronunciation tips to assist Siri with Chinese dialects.

## Overview

Overview For specific localizations, additional rules apply when specify values for the VocabularyItemPronunciation key: zh_CN: China Mandarin localization: Tones are represented using the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Use the number 5 for the neutral tone. Place tones at the end of the Pinyin representation of each character. For example, ping2 guo3. You can replace the special character ü in Pinyin with yu. For example, nü would become nyu. zh_TW: Taiwan Mandarin localization: Tones are represented using the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Use the number 5 for the neutral tone. Place tones at the end of the Pinyin representation of each character. For example, 蘇打綠 becomes su1 da3 lyu4. zh_HK: Hong Kong Cantonese localization: Use the Jyutping 粤语拼音 (粤拼) romanization system for Cantonese. Tones are represented using the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Place tone numbers at the end of the Jyutping. For example, 的士 becomes dik1 si2, and 短訊 becomes dyun2 seon2.

## See Also

### Articles

- [Adding User Interactivity with Siri Shortcuts and the Shortcuts App](sirikit/adding-user-interactivity-with-siri-shortcuts-and-the-shortcuts-app.md)
- [Defining Relevant Shortcuts for the Siri Watch Face](sirikit/defining-relevant-shortcuts-for-the-siri-watch-face.md)
- [Deleting Donated Shortcuts](sirikit/deleting-donated-shortcuts.md)
- [Dispatching intents to handlers](sirikit/dispatching-intents-to-handlers.md)
- [Improving Siri Media Interactions and App Selection](sirikit/improving-siri-media-interactions-and-app-selection.md)
- [Improving interactions between Siri and your messaging app](sirikit/improving-interactions-between-siri-and-your-messaging-app.md)
- [Registering Custom Vocabulary with SiriKit](sirikit/registering-custom-vocabulary-with-sirikit.md)
- [Confirming the Details of an Intent](sirikit/confirming-the-details-of-an-intent.md)
- [Handling an Intent](sirikit/handling-an-intent.md)
- [Resolving the Parameters of an Intent](sirikit/resolving-the-parameters-of-an-intent.md)
- [Generating a List of Ride Options](sirikit/generating-a-list-of-ride-options.md)
- [Handling the Ride-Booking Intents](sirikit/handling-the-ride-booking-intents.md)
- [Donating Reservations](sirikit/donating-reservations.md)
- [Specifying Synonyms for Your App Name](sirikit/specifying-synonyms-for-your-app-name.md)
- [Intent Phrases](sirikit/intent-phrases.md)