Top recommended free online chinese translator
Chinese language originated from ethic Han chinese, also called Mandarin is the official standard language in countries such as China mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Myanmar and Singapore. The first few chinese characters were dated to thousands of years ago, it can be quite a challenge for non-chinese to learn as each chinese character is unique and hard to distinguish between one another. Fortunately, as the technology grows more advanced each day, there are several online chinese translators that give further help to the non-chinese to understand and learn chinese better. So, here’s a few top recommended online chinese translators.
- Baidu translate “百度翻译“ ：fanyi.baidu.com/#auto/zh/
Baidu, one of the largest artificial intelligence and search engines in China has provided translation service for over 200+ languages around the world. It is free and users friendly as it can easily translate the entire paragraph without words limit. It can even translate the whole website into chinese via a given URL. In order to do that, simply just paste the URL into the translate column and click “翻译“, meaning to translate. In addition, users can just enter a chinese word or phrases and the system will detect the language automatically and translate into english (default). It also provides several sentences as examples to use the translated word or phrases.
2. Google translate：translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=zh-CN&text=focus&op=translate
Google on the other hand founded by American multitechnology company has the most visited browser worldwide until today. It also provides translation service on its online platform. Users can set up to 3 languages to translate simultaneously as shown as the picture above. Like Baidu, artificial intelligence will also detect the entered language automatically. It is able to translate chinese from up to 108 other different languages. There are no limitations to the translated word counts and it can simply translate a website by copy and paste the URL in the box given. Google translate also allows article translation by uploading the desired documents online under the “documents” option. In addition, Google allows chinese translation in multiple forms such as pinyin, cantonese,handwrite and more. Under the handwrite form, users can draw the chinese character to look for the desired word for translation into other foreign languages. It is undeniably the best free online translation tool to translate chinese into other languages. However, chinese translation sites are recommended if users wish to translate foreign languages into chinese such as Baidu or Youdao translate.
3. Youdao Translate (有道翻译） : http://fanyi.youdao.com/
This is another online free translator from chinese site. It can effectively translate to and from chinese for up to 13 foreign languages such as Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, French and more. It can translate websites and articles by the provided URL and uploaded files. However, it can pose a challenge for foreign users as the site is written purely in chinese form. Like Baidu, users can choose to pay for manual translation by the given URL and files. It charged as low as 0.12RMB per word.
4. Bing Microsoft Translator : https://www.bing.com/translator
As the name suggests, it is an online translator developed by Microsoft. This is a great alternative to Google translate as both of them work very similarly. It can translate up to 80 different languages, its interface is simple and easy to operate. It also provides pronunciation in both the translation boxes. Users just have to look for the microphone sign to pronounce the word. Besides, users are able to speak to the microphone, then the system will analyse the spoken word and translate into the desired language.
5. Yandex Translate : https://translate.yandex.com/
Yandex Translate is an online service formed by Yandex in the year of 2009. It offers translation up to 99 different languages in the form of pronunciation, predictive typing, dictionary with descriptions and more. It is available in the form of mobile applications for both the android or ios users.
In a nutshell, the online translator has its own limitations as it is a machine translation and might not work well with literary texts. It might not be as accurate as human translation, however it can still efficiently provide understanding to the general meaning of the given text.