BeChineseCan you get pinyin for Xiaohongshu posts?
Yes, on iPhone, though not inside 小红书 itself: an iPhone doesn’t let one app draw over another. Share the note to BeChinese instead, and it opens as 小红书 shows it: who posted it, its first picture, its title and its text. Brush or tap the words you can’t read, and their pinyin appears over them, they’re read aloud, and a card shows what they mean, with a button to save the word.
It’s for learning to read the Chinese yourself, not for translating it: the pinyin shows only on the words you pick, so you try the rest on your own.
How to share a note
- Open the note in 小红书 and tap its share button.
- Choose BeChinese. If it isn’t listed, copy the note’s link instead, and in BeChinese, on Scan, tap Import from social media, then Paste.
- BeChinese opens with the note, ready to read.
Video notes
A video note becomes a lesson: the clip at the top, and under it what’s written or said in it, line by line, lit as it plays. Captions on the video are read off it; a video without them is listened to, and what’s said is written out. Tap a word, and the clip pauses with its pinyin over it and a card with its meaning.
Tips for 小红书
- Text in a note’s first picture is read too, so recipe cards, menus and screenshots in posts work.
- To read the comments, where the slang is, press the Action Button on them: the screen opens in BeChinese, ready to read. See pinyin over any app.
- Simplified and traditional characters both work.
What you need
An iPhone on iOS 26 or later, and a connection: BeChinese’s server fetches the public note, with a daily limit for each account. You sign in with Apple or Google, then choose a plan, yearly, monthly or weekly, through the App Store. The yearly plan can start with a free week.
BeChinese does the same for TikTok, Instagram and X.
