Native Name: 官话 (Pŭtōnghuà)
Number of Speakers: 900 million
Official language of: People’s Republic of China, Singappore, Taiwan
Script used: Chinese (Simplified)
Sample of Mandarin
英国首相卡梅伦星期二（11月8日）抵达中国首都北京，展开他上任以来的首次中国访问。卡梅伦在动身前夕表示此行是一次“至关重要的商贸之旅”，并希望未来与中国建立更密切的联系。卡梅伦将在北京会晤中国国家主席胡锦涛和国务院总理温家宝，预计他们将讨论商贸、教育、能源以及经济议题。他此行所率的代表团中包括四名内阁大臣和近50名英国工商界领袖。
Adelphi has been typesetting Chinese in both Mandarin and Cantonese for over ten years. Our in-house Chinese proofreader ensures that your Chinese typesetting is as accurate as possible. Chinese typesetting uses standardised fonts but there are two types Traditional (Cantonese) and Simplified (Mandarin) and the correct font must be used. Adelphi are happy to organise the translation for you or to use a translation provided by yourselves.
Both Chinese writing systems are shorter than English and so this should be taken into account when designing the original English documents.
Simplified chinese (Mandarin) translation and typesetting
Mandarin was the language spoken by Chiinese officials from Beijing and is known at the Common Language or Official Language. Today it is the language of government, education and the media in China and Taiwan. As with all other varieties of the Chinese language, there are disputes as to whether Mandarin is a language or a dialect.
Mandarin is usuall written using the Simplified Chinese character set which was introduced in China in the 1950s to help improve literacy in the country. Mandarin has four tones:
high level – first tone
rising – second tone
falling rising – third tone
falling – fourth tone
Mandarin Translation, Typesetting, Websites, Voice-Overs and Subtitles
Adelphi Translations Ltd. work translating Mandarin Chinese to English and English to Mandarin Chinese. We also produce voice recordings and subtitles for video in Mandarin Chinese as well as translation and localisation of web sites into Mandarin Chinese.
To see more samples of Chinese translations and typesetting please click here.
