Chinese Translation Online

Chinese translation online can be done with a variety of free programs, most notably Google Translate. You can choose to translate either simplified or traditional Chinese into any language, or from any language into simplified or traditional Chinese. You can translate whole webpages, news articles, song lyrics, and more.

Google Translate allows you to translate back and forth between over 50 different languages. Google Translate is quite accurate and includes even some popular slang or colloquialisms. However, no online translator will be perfect, but Google’s developers are constantly working to improve the quality of Google Translate by gathering, analyzing, and comparing large data sets of already translated Chinese material online and enlisting the help of Chinese language specialists.

Not only is Google Translate a good service, but if you use the Google search engine and Chinese webpages that you can’t read are listed in the results, you can translate the page into English instead of turning away from that search result. The translations are usually very good and you’ll be able to make sense of the webpage after the translations.

Another Chinese translation tool can be found at MandarinTools. This resource is similar to a dictionary in that you can look up the pronunciation and definition of words. You can look up the simplified or traditional character by searching for the pinyin or actual English word, or you can input the Chinese character and get an English definition or Romanization. You can match your search as a whole dictionary field, at the start of the dictionary field, at the end of the dictionary field, or anywhere within the dictionary field. This tool is quite flexible and it is almost guaranteed you will find whatever you are looking for no matter what format it is in.

Another tool that allows you to look up Chinese, English, or pinyin is (http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php). You can search in many different formats. Some general rules must be followed in order for this service to work. Pinyin words should be entered without spacing in between. They can be entered with or without the tone numbers. Double quotes are used to group search terms together so that only entries where those terms show up together will appear. The asterisk “*” can be used as a wildcard in the search. This tool is flexible and is worth playing around with to see what kinds of words show up in the search.

Still other tools help you translate from pinyin into simplified or traditional Chinese. These tools are meant to be used for typing Chinese online, but for our purposes, they can also be used merely for translation. If you can view Chinese characters, then you can also type them without installing any extra software.

Whether you are looking for a serious translation or from Chinese to English or vice versa, the Chinese translation services introduced in this article can be useful in finding what you need. Many times, it is also interesting to see what types of wildly inaccurate translations you can find because as of today, no single translation tool is perfect.