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Chinese vocabulary

A person painting Chinese characters in the traditional method on paper.

Image: Marco Zuppone Having now also lived and travelled in China for four years, I’ve curated a list of useful vocabulary to get by with. While this list may be useful – you can try to read it or simply show the characters to the relevant person, I highly recommend downloading Baidu Translate. This is an effective translation app that works without a VPN. You can translate typed, verbal or image text. hello 你好nǐ hǎo… Read More »Essential survival Chinese vocab to travel China