question to those who speak Chinese

Hi, was hoping someone here can help me out. I want to put a phonetically spelled chinese word in my ms, but I don't seem to be able to apply to proper accents to the word. The phonetically spelled word (which I got from a translating website) says the word is "baichi." But there should be a slanted accent over the "a" and a straight line over the "i". I tried to changed my tools/language setting to chinese (and I tried it in the Chinese (prc) and in the Chinese (Taiwan) and when I try add the accent (using the option button on MAC), I get a small circle symbol over the "a" and one of these, ^ over the second i.

So, I guess my issue actually deals with how to remedy this situation so it shows up properly on my computer screen. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mel

oops, okay. solved my own problem in the cheating way. I just copied and pasted the word and then changed the font, style, and color and it looks fine. Still would be interested if there is a way to do that for future reference since I like to use words from other languages in my works.