How to Draw Tones
Drawing tones on Skritter is easy!
In Chinese there are 5 tones: a high level tone (1), a rising tone (2), a falling + rising tone (3), a falling tone (4), and a neutral tone (5). When you are presented with a tone prompt on Skritter, it will show you the character, and ask you to write the correct tone shape on top of it to indicate which tone it should be. The different shapes to indicate the tones are shown below.
- 1 High level (first tone)
- 2 Rising (second tone)
- 3 Falling + Rising (third tone)
- 4 Falling (fourth tone)
- 5 Neutral (fifth tone)