Chinese Translation Services

Cipherion’s focus on delivering highest-quality Chinese translations means that we only use teams of professional, native-language translators that have been selected and qualified in advance of work on any of our projects.

Cipherion provide translations from both English to Chinese and Chinese to English in a range of sectors including the legal, medical, tourism and technical fields.

English to Chinese Translation:
See our case study outlining how our highest-quality Chinese translations have helped an Irish Agri-food company to enter the Chinese market.

Chinese to English Translation:
In order to deliver target-market focused translations, we have selected teams of professional Chinese-English translators who are primarily living in the UK, US or Ireland.

At Cipherion we care about language quality and we care about our clients. Our 2011 Customer Survey shows how we bring a unique blend of language, technical and marketing expertise to help address your global communication needs.

Find out more about our range of global communication services including technical translations, software localization, content development, website localization and document translations.

Facts about the Chinese language

• Approximately 850 millions of people speak some form of Chinese.

• Chinese uses a logographic system in its writing which represents words or phrases. These characters can represent things, sounds or abstract concepts.

• One-fifth of the world’s population speaks some form of Chinese as their mother tongue.

• Mandarin Chinese is the standard language of the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, and the Republic of China or Taiwan

• Many researchers believe that Chinese is the oldest language of the world, there are some samples of the Chinese writing which date back from 4,000 years ago.

• With the growing importance and influence of China's economy globally, Mandarin instruction is gaining popularity in schools in the USA, and has become an increasingly popular subject of study amongst the young in the Western world, as in the UK

• Mandarin is a tonal language, which means the pitch or intonation in which a sound is spoken affects the meaning.

• There are two forms: Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Traditional Chinese is the oldest written form, the most complex and is mostly used by Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Simplified Chinese, on the other hand, was created about 40 years ago so that the general public could become literate. It is easier to write, less complex and most commonly used in the People's Republic of China and Singapore.

• One major difference between Chinese concepts of language and Western concepts is that Chinese makes a sharp distinction between written language (wen) and spoken language (yu).