Countries
India, Pakistan
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Pakistan
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Pakistan
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
India
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
خوش آمديد
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
براہ مہربانی
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
معاف کرنا
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
الوداع
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Dakhini
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
India
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
12
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
India
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Rekhta
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
South Asia
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million
  
15
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
61.00 million
  
19
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million
  
14
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
اُردُو
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Bihari
  
Not Available
  
French Name
ourdou
  
chinois
  
German Name
Urdu
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Han
  
Origin
12th Century CE
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
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Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ur
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
urd
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
urd
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
urd
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
urdu1245
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Urdu and Chinese 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 Urdu and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Urdu and Chinese language. Urdu word for "Hello" is خوش آمديد or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Urdu Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Urdu vs Chinese Difficulty
The Urdu vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Urdu Alphabets and Chinese 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 Urdu and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Urdu and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Urdu is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.