Chinese Translation Services

DHCTranslations provides certified Chinese to English translation from £40 per document, for UK visas, courts, universities and professional regulators. Send a scan or clear photos of every page with a note of what the document is for, and a fixed price comes back, usually within 30 minutes during UK business hours. The certified PDF carries the signed statement, the translator's name and their contact details.

From £40 per document for a certificate or short record. Anything over 400 words is charged from £0.09 per word on the balance. Notarisation is added only if the receiving body asks for it, and it is quoted separately so you can see what you are paying for.

Short documents are usually with you the same day when the order and cleared payment arrive before 4pm on a working day. Longer files, difficult handwriting and court declarations take longer, and your quote states the date before you pay.

Yes. The version of the document decides the wording: a certificate in Traditional characters is translated with the vocabulary and name order of the region that issued it, and a Simplified original is handled the same way rather than converted.

Mandarin is the standard written form in mainland China and Taiwan. Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong and appears in adverts and messaging, while formal Hong Kong documents are written in Traditional Chinese.

Yes. Hong Kong birth, marriage and identity documents are written in Traditional Chinese and are translated as issued, including any stamp and handwritten annotation on the original.

Yes. Taiwan uses Traditional Chinese and its own vocabulary, so a household registration transcript or a certificate is translated with Taiwanese terminology rather than mainland wording.

Yes. UKVI asks for a named translator with credentials and contact details, and a signed statement of accuracy, and every Chinese order carries all three. Whether the evidence is accepted is for the caseworker deciding your application, since each route sets its own list. No Chinese translation we have issued has come back over its certification.

Chinese names usually put the family name first, and the same person can appear under different romanisations across a passport, an identity card and a certificate. One English spelling is fixed for the whole file, and dates are written in a clear day-month-year format.

Not the Chinese original. The FCDO apostilles a document issued in the UK, or a translation we completed ourselves once it has been notarised, which is the route we can arrange. A Chinese original is legalised in China, by its own authorities.

Yes. Chinese records are translated into English as certified translations for UK authorities, with a signed statement, or as plain translation for business use. Certificates, contracts, transcripts and immigration papers are covered, from £40 per document or from £0.09 per word over 400 words.

Yes. English documents are translated into Chinese for mainland, Taiwanese and Hong Kong companies and institutions, with certification where the recipient accepts a UK certificate. Agreements, manuals, websites and personal papers are quoted from £40 per document, and from £0.10 per word after 400 words.