Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
India
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
chinois
  
hindi
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Chinese and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Hindi language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Hindi Difficulty
The Chinese vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.