Chinese Translation Services
Professional Chinese translation for companies, financial institutions, and organizations. Business Team Translations provides Chinese translation services across technical, legal, financial, and commercial domains.
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) is an active part of our translation and interpreting work — particularly for manufacturing clients with Chinese-language operations, financial institutions with Chinese counterparties, and organizations distributing products in Chinese-speaking markets.
Our Chinese translators are native Chinese speakers working into their first language, with subject-matter expertise in the relevant domain. We provide both Simplified Chinese (mainland China, Singapore) and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong) as required.
Language Directions
English, German, Hungarian, and other European languages.
English, German, Hungarian, and other European languages.
We provide both Simplified Chinese (mainland China, Singapore) and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong) as required.
Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. We provide Simplified Chinese for mainland China and Singapore, and Traditional Chinese for Taiwan and Hong Kong. Our Chinese translators have subject-matter expertise across technical, legal, financial, and commercial domains.
Selected Clients
Financial documentation between Chinese, English, German, and Hungarian.
Consecutive interpreting at automotive manufacturing operations in Chinese and Hungarian.
AV control systems interface documentation from English into Chinese and 7 other languages.
Railway systems documentation between English, German, Hungarian, Spanish, and Chinese.
Sports governance documentation into Chinese and 26 other languages.
Quality Process
All translation is delivered under our ISO 17100:2015 certified quality process.
Professional or academic background in the relevant domain — not general language proficiency.
Every translation reviewed by a second qualified linguist before delivery.
Client glossaries maintained and applied across all projects.
Consistency across document versions and over time.
Named project manager from quotation to delivery.
What we translate in Chinese
The document types that make up most of our Chinese workload, each handled by translators with a background in that field.
Manuals, specifications, labelling and safety documentation for products manufactured in or exported to Chinese-speaking markets.
Certification and compliance documentation for products entering the mainland Chinese market.
Supply agreements, joint venture documentation and corporate records for Chinese counterparties.
Patent specifications and technical filings, where terminological precision determines the scope of what is protected.
What makes Chinese translation different
Every language creates its own problems. These are the ones that decide whether Chinese work succeeds or has to be redone.
Simplified Chinese serves mainland China and Singapore; Traditional serves Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. The difference goes beyond character forms into vocabulary, particularly in technical and IT terminology, where the same concept has genuinely different accepted terms. Converting one to the other mechanically produces text that is readable and visibly wrong.
Chinese is written without spaces between words, so word counts are not meaningful and pricing works on characters. A 1,000-word English source does not become "1,000 words" of Chinese, and quotes that pretend otherwise are hiding an assumption. We state the basis on the quotation.
Chinese text occupies roughly 40–50% less horizontal space than English, leaving gaps in layouts designed for Latin script, and it requires a proper CJK font. Substitute a Latin font and characters render as empty boxes — an error a non-reader will not catch at proof stage, and one that reaches print. We handle CJK typesetting rather than handing back a file for someone else to break.
Chinese translation: common questions
Simplified or Traditional — which do we need?
Simplified for mainland China and Singapore; Traditional for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. If you are covering both, they are two targets with two translators, not one translation converted twice. We will say so at quotation rather than after delivery.
How do you price Chinese translation?
On character count for Chinese source, and on source word count when translating into Chinese. Either way the basis is stated on the quotation, so you are comparing like with like against other providers.
Can you handle Chinese typesetting?
Yes — CJK fonts, line-breaking rules and layout in InDesign and comparable tools. This matters more than it sounds: font substitution errors in Chinese are invisible to anyone who does not read the script, and they survive right through to print.
Ready to discuss your Chinese translation project?
Tell us about your documents, languages, and deadline. We will prepare a detailed proposal within one business hour.