Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Israel
National Language
China, Taiwan
Israel
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Israel
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Poland
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Academy of the Hebrew Language
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
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Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
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Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
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Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Israel
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Wu
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Yue
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Israel
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
chinois
hébreu
German Name
Chinesisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Han
Not Available
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
Canaanitic
Early Forms
No early forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Hebrew
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sini1245
hebr1246
Linguasphere
79-AAA
12-AAB-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic
Chinese and Hebrew Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Hebrew greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Hebrew language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Hebrew word for "Thank You" is תודה (Toda). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Hebrew Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Hebrew Difficulty
The Chinese vs Hebrew difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Hebrew Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Hebrew are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Hebrew, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Hebrew time required is 44 weeks.