How do you write "Chinese" (language) in Mandarin and Cantonese?

6 Comments

1. bryan_q says:

   October 3, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   Chinese in the Chinese written language = 汉语 / 漢語, 中文, 中国话 / 中國話, 华语 / 華語, etc…
   There’s already a website which does what you do, which I usually WOULD NOT recommend to Newbies like you, but I have to.

   Chinese when written is the same 90% of the time for ALL dialects!!! Only that little percentage is for those words which doesn’t exist in Mandarin but does exists in other dialects.

   PS… Please learn Chinese FIRST before you make the website, or visit other Chinese language websites already made by many others whether the webmaster / webmistress is Chinese or not!!!

   PPS I’ve also included a music video called 中国话 / 中國話, "Zhong guo hua" by a girl group S.H.E. from Taiwan.
2. Summer says:

   October 3, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   Mandarin: 中文
   Cantonese: 粤语
3. Liuzhou Laowai says:

   October 3, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   You are making a website with multilingual facilities, but can’t write the names of the languages?

   How does that work then?
4. 日本 says:

   October 3, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   Chinese (Chinese language) in Mandarin it says 汉语 – hàn yǔ instead Chinese (Chinese language) in Cantonese it says 中文.
5. longliveabcdefg says:

   October 3, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   For the sake of not mis-educating people, could you please learn some Chinese yourself first before launching that website, and I am pleading you sincerely.
6. Yl says:

   October 3, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   You mean you’re designing something like those translation websites, right?

   Under this circumstance, the difference is not between Mandarin and Cantonese; it should be between simplified and traditional Chinese.

   Simplified Chinese:简体中文
   Traditional Chinese: 繁體中文

   Hope that helps!!!