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Questions about the official transcription writing system that is used to write the reading of chinese characters using the roman alphabet.

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Are there any free/open fonts designed to help learn/read Chinese?

Yes a font does exist with pinyin on top of every character and it can be obtained from the Chinese page at www.pinyinok.com/pyhzk.htm but I do NOT recommend it for learning, because taking only the most … I came across one beginner whose techie friend had installed this font on her Windows PC for her to use with a reference CD-ROM and she honestly thought the resulting pinyin was official and definitive …
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Tool which can convert web pages from Hanzi to either Pinyin or Zhuyin Fuhao

On Android you could try the "Pinyin Web Browser" app in the Play Store (free and no ads), or "Cantonese Web Browser" for Sidney Lau / Yale. … (You could work around this by cramming pinyin into the very small existing space between the lines, but the result would not be half as easy to read.) …
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