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Chinese characters

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Simplified Chinese characters

Chinese simplified characters

Traditional Chinese characters

Chinese grammar rules

Nouns

Noun in Chinese is known as 名词 (míngcí).

Nouns often act as subjects, are modified by adjectives, and can be counted with measure words.

Nouns have four basic characteristics in Chinese:

Mostly nouns are modified by a measure word.
Nouns can act as an object, a subject, a compliment, but never as the result. Occasionally it can be an adverbial.
Nouns are not modified by the negative adverb “不”.
Nouns are not reduplicated (except for a cutesy effect )

Verbs

Chinese formatting rules

Date formats

Short date format	yyyy.mm.dd. or yyyy.m.d.
	e.g. 2016/03/17 or 2016/3/17
Long date format	yyyy 年 mm 月 dd 日 or yyyy 年 m 月 d 日
	e.g. 2016 年 03 月 17 日 or 2016 年 3 月 17 日

Numbers and measurements

Decimal separator	. (period)
	e.g. 3.15
Thousand separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 3,000, not 3 000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using comma as thousand separator
	e.g. 20,000, not 20 000
Measurement units	non-breaking space
	e.g. 1 cm, not 1cm 39 ˚C, not 39˚C Exception: 10%, not 10 %
Percentage	there is no space between number and the % symbol
Chinese currency name	Chinese Yuan Renminbi
Currency symbol	CNY or ¥
Currency symbol position	located before the number
	e.g. CNY 150 or ¥150

Chinese capitalisation usage

Use of capitalisation

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