# Traditional Chinese Translation Services

> Traditional Chinese translation for documents from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS or sworn for Brazil.

https://roxotranslations.com/traditional-chinese-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Traditional Chinese translation for documents from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and for Chinese communities around the world, in both directions with the language pairs listed below. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the statement of accuracy and notarization included; for Brazil it can be a sworn translation into Portuguese, valid nationwide.

- Traditional Chinese characters, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS or sworn for use in Brazil
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Traditional Chinese is used and where your translation is accepted

Traditional Chinese characters are the official script in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and they are common in older Chinese communities outside China, such as in the United States. Simplified characters are used in mainland China and Singapore. A document from Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau comes in Traditional characters, and the destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/us/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/br/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide |
| Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Mainland China and Singapore | Documents in Simplified characters, translated by the same team on our [Simplified Chinese page](https://roxotranslations.com/chinese-translation/) |

## Traditional Chinese language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Traditional Chinese that we translate today, in both directions.

- Chinese (Traditional) to [Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- Chinese (Traditional) to [English (Canada)](https://roxotranslations.com/canadian-english-translation/)
- Chinese (Traditional) to [English (Ireland)](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation-ireland/)
- Chinese (Traditional) to [English (United Kingdom)](https://roxotranslations.com/british-english-translation/)
- Chinese (Traditional) to [English (United States)](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- Chinese (Traditional) to [Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- Chinese (Traditional) to [Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/) to Chinese (Traditional)
- [English (Canada)](https://roxotranslations.com/canadian-english-translation/) to Chinese (Traditional)
- [English (Ireland)](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation-ireland/) to Chinese (Traditional)
- [English (United Kingdom)](https://roxotranslations.com/british-english-translation/) to Chinese (Traditional)
- [English (United States)](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/) to Chinese (Traditional)
- [Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/) to Chinese (Traditional)
- [Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/) to Chinese (Traditional)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Traditional Chinese translation: what changes in each document

Traditional and Simplified Chinese are two standard sets of characters for the same written language. A translation into Chinese uses the characters of the place where the document will be used, and a translation from Traditional Chinese keeps names, dates and seals exactly as in the original.

- Characters: Traditional Chinese keeps the older, fuller forms, so country is written 國, while Simplified Chinese writes 国. A text for Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau goes into Traditional characters.
- Speech: Cantonese, spoken in Hong Kong and Macau, is usually written in Traditional characters, and Mandarin is the official spoken language of Taiwan. The standard written language is the same, but each region has its own vocabulary, and the translation uses the words of the place where it will be read.
- Names: the surname comes first, and Hong Kong and Taiwan use their own romanizations instead of the pinyin of mainland passports, so the same surname 陳 can be Chan or Chen. The translation follows the spelling in the passport.
- Dates and numbers: dates are written year, month and day, and large numbers are counted in units of ten thousand (萬), so 5萬 is 50,000. Documents from Taiwan often count years in the Minguo calendar, which starts in 1912, so year 115 is 2026.
- Documents: identity cards, household records such as the Taiwanese household registration transcript (戶籍謄本), and birth and marriage certificates often carry red seals and stamps. The translation reproduces every seal, stamp and note.

## The history of Traditional Chinese characters

Traditional characters are the forms in which Chinese was written for many centuries. They descend from the single script that Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China, made the standard for the whole empire in 221 BC. Each character stands for a syllable with a meaning, which is why the same writing could be read across regions that spoke very differently.

In the 1950s, mainland China made Simplified characters official, with fewer strokes, and introduced the pinyin alphabet. Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau kept the Traditional forms, and so did many Chinese communities abroad, especially the older ones.

Today Traditional Chinese is the official script in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and it is still common in Chinese communities in the United States and other countries. Cantonese and Mandarin speakers read the same characters, so one written language serves millions of people who speak in different ways.

## We also translate other languages

- [Japanese translation](https://roxotranslations.com/japanese-translation/)
- [Hindi translation](https://roxotranslations.com/hindi-translation/)
- [Brazilian Portuguese translation](https://roxotranslations.com/portuguese-translation/)
- [European Portuguese translation](https://roxotranslations.com/european-portuguese-translation/)
- [Russian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)