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Translating for websites - English to Chinese (Simplified) - Characters or written?

My question is this:

Should Chinese characters be used or should the translations be spelled out?

delete > 删除

or

delete > Shānchú

Solution

  • You should test your translated website with users of the destination language, and use the terms and spelling which they prefer. You should have a translator who is skilled in the source and destination language perform the translation, and accept the terms and spelling which they suggest.

    I am not a user of websites in Chinese, nor a translator. But from what I understand of the language, Chinese should certainly be written in characters (e.g. 删除). The Latin script spelling (Shānchú) is used by those who do not read the Chinese script, as a way to understand the sound of the words.