Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
National Language
China, Taiwan
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
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Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Hangul
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
안녕 (annyeong)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
South Korea
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
South Korea
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
China, North Korea
How Many People Speak
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
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Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
chinois
coréen
German Name
Chinesisch
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
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Origin
1250 BC
Before 1st century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sini1245
kore1280
Linguasphere
79-AAA
45-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative
Chinese and Korean 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 Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Korean language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Korean Difficulty
The Chinese vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Korean 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 Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.