Travel Phrasebook
Choose your language, learn the meaning, read the pinyin, or play the Chinese pronunciation for someone nearby.
You do not need to speak Chinese to travel in China, but twenty well-chosen phrases change how the trip feels — staff relax, misunderstandings shrink, and small problems get solved faster. This tool collects 24 essential phrases for the situations where you will actually need them: greetings, directions, ordering food, shopping, hotels, and emergencies. Choose your interface language, read what each phrase means, study the pinyin, then tap the speaker to hear native Mandarin pronunciation — or better, tap play and hold the phone up so the person in front of you hears it directly. The copy button saves the Chinese characters for pasting into chat apps or showing to a driver. Audio uses your device's speech synthesis and works offline once loaded, so phrases stay available even in a subway with no signal. Learn five before you fly — hello, thank you, how much, where is it, help — and pick up the rest as situations arise.
Tap the speaker to hear Mandarin. Tap copy to save the Chinese phrase.