Chinese Translation Tool, 2009 (Freeware)

System Requirements

Macintosh, Mac OS X 10.3 or later

PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac, 1 GB of RAM

Windows 2000 or later (2000 / XP / Vista) 1 GB of RAM, 1.0 GHz Processor

Education, Print, and Publication IndustrySoftware Developer: Francis LimThe Chinese languages are spoken by over a billion people. China is one of the world’s fastest growing economies. The vast majority of the Chinese-speaking population is in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, but substantial numbers are also found throughout the whole of Southeast Asia, especially in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. 

Simplified Chinese Characters (simplified Chinese: 简化字; traditional Chinese: 簡化字 or simplified Chinese: 简体字; traditional Chinese: 簡體字) are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary Chinese written language. They are based mostly on popular cursive (caoshu) forms embodying graphic or phonetic simplifications of the "traditional" forms that were used in printed text for over a thousand years. The government of the People's Republic of China has promoted them for use in printing in an attempt to increase literacy.

Traditional Chinese is currently used in the Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Overseas Chinese communities generally use traditional characters, but simplified characters are often used among mainland Chinese immigrants. However, the majority of the Chinese-speaking world uses Simplified Characters.

Simplified character forms were created by decreasing the number of strokes and simplifying the forms of a sizable proportion of traditional Chinese characters. Some characters were simplified by applying regular rules; for example, by replacing all occurrences of a certain component with a simpler variant. Some characters were simplified irregularly, however, and some simplified characters are very dissimilar to and unpredictable from traditional characters. Finally, many characters were left untouched by simplification, and are thus identical between the traditional and simplified Chinese orthographies.

Traditional Chinese characters are seen throughout the region; advertisements, slogans, signs, and even television subtitles. A large portion of universities have switched to using and teaching Traditional Chinese because people were not able to understand the Simplified Chinese from neighbours such as Hong Kong and Taiwan.

If you are simply targeting a geographic region the decision to use Simplified or Traditional Chinese becomes very clear. Simplified Chinese is used in mainland China (PRC) and in Singapore. If you are targeting Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Malaysia you would use the Traditional Chinese method of writing.

Functional Grouping:  Personal – Chinese Translation, Business – Chinese Translation

Software Developer : Francis Lim

Chinese Translation Tool : Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese(Windows)

Complexity/User Experience Category: Simple

About Chinese Translation Tool

Translate Chinese Text from Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese, vice-versa.

How to use this Starter Solution

Use this program to enter Chinese text or either copy and paste Chinese text for instant translation from Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese, vice-versa.

Chinese Translation Tool : Traditional Chinese To Simplified Chinese(Macintosh)