Chinese (Simplified) translation services

Chinese (Simplified) translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with any mainland-specific terminology research included rather than billed separately. Send your files and we'll come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native mainland Chinese linguists translate directly into Simplified Chinese from your source material, and a second native linguist independently reviews every text, confirming that terminology and register genuinely match a mainland audience rather than reading like a script converted from a Taiwan or Hong Kong original.

Yes — Chinese (Simplified) translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout. Mainland terminology is confirmed by native linguists at every stage rather than left to an automatic character converter that only changes the script, not the underlying words.

Not reliably. Several distinct traditional characters were merged into a single simplified one during the reform, so an automatic converter has to guess which original meaning was intended and sometimes guesses wrong. On top of that, mainland and Taiwan Chinese use different everyday words for the same things, and no converter fixes vocabulary. We translate from your source instead.

No. The script is one layer, but mainland and Taiwan or Hong Kong Chinese also differ in everyday and technical vocabulary — «software» is 软件 on the mainland and 軟體 in Taiwan. Matching the script without matching the words leaves a document that still reads as written for the wrong market.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT files and timed two-column voice-over scripts ready for the studio, and we also translate plain text and documents whenever a project calls for it, from corporate reports to marketing copy, technical material and eLearning courses.

Character conversion can silently swap in the wrong word wherever several traditional characters collapsed into one simplified character, and it never touches vocabulary that differs regardless of script, like technical or brand terms. The result often reads fluently but uses words a mainland audience wouldn't recognise as standard, which native translation avoids from the start.

Singapore uses Simplified Chinese and this service covers it well, though everyday vocabulary picks up some local borrowings the mainland doesn't use. Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau use Traditional Chinese with their own vocabulary — a separate translation, not a converted version of this one.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity, and whether mainland-specific terminology needs additional research all move the delivery date, and your dedicated project manager will confirm a realistic timeline with you at the very start of the brief.