China

Business in China

Interesting fact for those who want to do business in China: Chinese companies with online companies do not accept international credit cards because of the high rate of credit card fraud. Don't bother. Give up now. Or take a boat to China, then they'll talk.

Chinese language resources

• nciku - my favourite chinese-english dictionary
• dict.cn - popular chinese-english dictionary
• Google Language Tools
• 百度知道 - Baidu Answers

Chinese IT terms

• 虚拟主机服务: Virtual Server
• 虚拟主机空间: Webhosting space
• 博客: Blog

Chinese Internet Slang

• 5555 (五五五五 wǔ wǔ wǔ wǔ): crying noises
• PF (佩服 pei fu): respect
• TMD (他妈的 ta ma de): swear word
• 3Q (三Q san kew): thank you!
• 94 (就是 jiu shi): yes, that is.
• 42 (是 shi）: yes!
  
• PMP (拍马屁 pai ma pi): bootlick.

Optimising websites for Chinese content

Meta tags

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312" />    // thats the charset for simplified chinese
<meta name="Keywords" content="CHINESE KEYWORDS HERE">
<meta name="Description" content="CHINESE DESCRIPTION HERE">

Alt tags

Alt tags need to be translated as well.

See Also

• Baidu
• Asian character input
• Microsoft Global Input Method Editor