Chinese Translation and Localization Services
The following information is provided by Omniglot.
Chinese is written with characters which are known as 漢字 [汉字] (hànzi). The characters were originally pictures of people, animals or other things, but over the centuries they have become increasingly stylised and no longer resemble the things they represent. Many characters have been combined with others to create new ones.
Until the early 20th century, Classical Chinese, 文言 (wényán), was the main form of writing in China. It was standardised during the late Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) and was also used in Korea, Japan and Vietnam before they developed their own writing systems.
In Classical Chinese most words were monosyllabic and written with a single character. However, during the 1920s a new form of written Chinese modelled on spoken Mandarin was developed. Most Chinese publications since then have been written in this form, which is known as 白話 [白话 ] (báihuà), though Classical Chinese constructions and especially proverbs are still used to some extent.
In spoken Chinese, words are made up of one, two or more syllables. Each of the syllables is written with a separate character. Each character has its own meaning, though many are used only in combination with other characters.
Every character is given exactly the same amount of space, no matter how complex it is. There are no spaces between characters and the characters which make up multi-syllable words are not grouped together, so when reading Chinese, you not only have to work out what the characters mean and how to pronounce them, but also which characters belong together.
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Language Intelligence offers professional Chinese translation and localization services. Our Chinese translators are all professional, native-speaking translators that have developed a proven subject matter expertise in the various types of content we translate.
Whether working from Chinese to English or English to Chinese, our Chinese translation services are designed to prepare your technical documentation, software and marketing collateral for global distribution.
We offer a variety of Chinese language services:
- Chinese Translation
- Chinese Document Translation
- Chinese Software Translation
- Chinese Website Translation
- Chinese Technical Services
- Chinese Consulting
- Chinese Voiceover & Subtitling
- Chinese Language Learning Solutions
- Chinese Culture Training
- Chinese Interpreting
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- Chinese translation for the Advertising & Marketing Industry
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- Chinese translation for the Alternative Energy & Clean Technology Industries
- Chinese translation for the Life Sciences Industries
- Chinese translation for the Manufacturing Industry
- Chinese translation for the Software & IT Industries
- Chinese translation for the Market Research Industry
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