This site is designed as a starting point for people who want to learn more about the Chinese language. The links on the left contain English to Chinese translations as well as other tools …

Chinese 101 Hello. 你好。 Nǐ hǎo. How are you? 你好吗？ Nǐ hǎo ma? 身体好吗? Shen1tǐ hǎo ma? Fine, thank you. 很好, 谢谢。 Hěn hǎo, xièxie.

In the Chinese writing system, each individual single-syllable morpheme corresponds to a single character, referred to as a zì (字). Most Chinese speakers think of words as being zì, but this …

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The identification of the varieties of Chinese as "languages" or "dialects" is a controversial issue. If Chinese is classified as a single language rather than a group of languages, it is the most …

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The idea of Chinese as a language family may suggest that China consists of several different nations, challenge the notion of a single Han Chinese "race," and legitimize secessionist …

The development of the spoken Chinese languages from early historical times to the present has been complex. Most northern Chinese people, in Sìchuān and in a broad arc from the …

See Chinese grammar for the grammar of Standard Mandarin (the standardized Chinese spoken language), and the articles on other varieties of Chinese for their respective grammars.

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