Chinese language guide and translation tips

Practical guides for translating files, emails and reviewing results

Language overview

Chinese is listed in the translation catalog under the language identifier zh-Hans. Selecting this entry sets the source or target language; it does not specify every regional variety or specialist vocabulary.

Writing system

The default writing system associated with this catalog entry is Simplified Chinese. Preserve accents, punctuation and personal names. This default script information is derived from Unicode locale data and is not an exhaustive list of scripts used by speakers.

Common usage

Use the Chinese translator to understand correspondence, study material, travel information and short workplace drafts. For a specialist text, supply a complete sentence rather than an isolated term, and retain any context that identifies the subject.

Translation tips

Simplified Chinese has no spaces between words; review names and regional terminology.

Check negation and the subject of each sentence. Compare quantities, currencies and dates with the original. A fluent reader should review important text for meaning and tone before it is published.

Translate Chinese

Chinese → Afrikaans Chinese → Albanian Chinese → Amharic Chinese → Arabic Chinese → Armenian Chinese → Assamese Chinese → Azerbaijani Chinese → Bangla Chinese → Bashkir Chinese → Basque Chinese → Belarusian Chinese → Bhojpuri Chinese → Bodo Chinese → Bosnian Chinese → Bulgarian Chinese → Cantonese (Traditional)Chinese → Catalan Chinese → Chhattisgarhi Chinese → Chinese (Literary)Chinese → Chinese Traditional Chinese → Croatian Chinese → Czech Chinese → Danish Chinese → Dari Chinese → Divehi Chinese → Dogri Chinese → Dutch Chinese → English Chinese → Estonian Chinese → Faroese Chinese → Fijian Chinese → Filipino Chinese → Finnish Chinese → French Chinese → French (Canada)Chinese → Galician Chinese → Ganda Chinese → Georgian Chinese → German Chinese → Greek Chinese → Gujarati Chinese → Haitian Creole Chinese → Hausa Chinese → Hebrew Chinese → Hindi Chinese → Hmong Daw Chinese → Hungarian Chinese → Icelandic Chinese → Igbo Chinese → Indonesian Chinese → Inuinnaqtun Chinese → Inuktitut Chinese → Inuktitut (Latin)Chinese → Irish Chinese → Italian Chinese → Japanese Chinese → Kannada Chinese → Kashmiri Chinese → Kazakh Chinese → Khmer Chinese → Kinyarwanda Chinese → Klingon (Latin)Chinese → Klingon (pIqaD)Chinese → Konkani Chinese → Korean Chinese → Kurdish (Central)Chinese → Kurdish (Northern)Chinese → Kyrgyz Chinese → Lao Chinese → Latvian Chinese → Lingala Chinese → Lithuanian Chinese → Lower Sorbian Chinese → Luxembourgish Chinese → Macedonian Chinese → Maithili Chinese → Malagasy Chinese → Malay Chinese → Malayalam Chinese → Maltese Chinese → Manipuri Chinese → Māori Chinese → Marathi Chinese → Mongolian (Cyrillic)Chinese → Mongolian (Traditional)Chinese → Myanmar (Burmese)Chinese → Nepali Chinese → Norwegian Chinese → Nyanja Chinese → Odia Chinese → Pashto Chinese → Persian Chinese → Polish Chinese → Portuguese Chinese → Portuguese (Portugal)Chinese → Punjabi Chinese → Querétaro Otomi Chinese → Romanian Chinese → Rundi Chinese → Russian Chinese → Samoan Chinese → Serbian (Cyrillic)Chinese → Serbian (Latin)Chinese → Sesotho Chinese → Sesotho sa Leboa Chinese → Setswana Chinese → Shona Chinese → Sindhi Chinese → Sinhala Chinese → Slovak Chinese → Slovenian Chinese → Somali Chinese → Spanish Chinese → Spanish (Mexico)Chinese → Swahili Chinese → Swedish Chinese → Tahitian Chinese → Tamil Chinese → Tatar Chinese → Telugu Chinese → Thai Chinese → Tibetan Chinese → Tigrinya Chinese → Tongan Chinese → Turkish Chinese → Turkmen Chinese → Ukrainian Chinese → Upper Sorbian Chinese → Urdu Chinese → Uyghur Chinese → Uzbek (Latin)Chinese → Vietnamese Chinese → Welsh Chinese → Xhosa Chinese → Yoruba Chinese → Yucatec Maya Chinese → Zulu

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