Translate Simplified Chinese (中文) into clear, natural English - from WeChat chats and 抖音 captions to government notices and academic papers. Frontier AI, free for everyday use.
Mandarin Chinese has roughly 1.1 billion native speakers, more than any other language on Earth. English remains the global lingua franca for work, study and the open web. translator.im bridges the two with frontier AI that understands 成语 idioms, internet slang and formal 公文 register - so the English you get reads naturally, not robotically.
A quick reference for daily conversation, polite formalities and asking for help. Tap any row to copy it into the translator above.
We tune for fluent, idiomatic English output - not character-by-character transliteration. Idioms (成语), measure words and formal 公文 register are handled the way a bilingual person would.
Chinese 成语 like 画蛇添足 are translated to natural English equivalents ('gilding the lily'), not literal 'draw snake add feet'.
Paste pure Simplified Hanzi, Traditional Hanzi or romanised pinyin - the model figures it out and gives you clean English back.
No upload needed - copy Chinese articles, chats or reports and paste up to 5,000 characters per request. Paragraph breaks stay in place, so long passages read back in order.
Upload a photo or screenshot of a sign, slide or form with printed Hanzi. OCR runs in your browser, you check the recognised Chinese text, then read it in English. Works best on clear print.
Government 公文 notices, school textbooks, legal contracts and research papers translated into formal, citation-ready English.
Nothing to install and nothing to register - paste your Chinese and go. You get 10 free translations a day; see our privacy policy for how requests are handled.
Students writing English essays, founders pitching overseas investors, Bytedance / Tencent / Baidu teams localising product, fans subtitling C-dramas - it all fits.
Convert pitch decks, contracts and product briefs from Mainland Chinese tech firms (Bytedance, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba) into clear, neutral English for global teams.
Translate Chinese 成绩单, diplomas and recommendation letters into formal English for US, UK, Canadian and Australian university applications.
Paste dialogue or subtitle lines from a 抖音, B站 or iQIYI video - up to 5,000 characters at a time - and get natural English captions ready for YouTube or TikTok.
Translate WeChat voice transcripts, 朋友圈 posts and Lunar New Year greetings from older relatives so the whole family can understand.
Small framing choices that get noticeably better English output.
translator.im auto-detects, but if you paste mixed Simplified (简体) and Traditional (繁體) - common in Hong Kong or Taiwan content shared into Mainland chats - say 'source is Traditional Chinese' to anchor the model and avoid stray character substitutions.
Chinese often drops the subject and relies on context for tense. A full paragraph gives the model enough signal to choose the right English pronoun (he/she/they) and tense (was/is/will be).
Add 'translate for an academic paper', 'translate as a friendly tweet' or 'translate as formal business email' before pasting - the English output will match that register instead of defaulting to neutral.
No account, no install, no waiting. Drop your Chinese in and read it back in English in seconds.