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WORD COUNT ISSUE
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English
word count vs. Chinese
character count
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Most of time, we quote based on source word count, because many clients feel they have better control over the cost this way.
However, what if the original document is in Chinese characters? You don’t know how many words there will be after the document is translated into Chinese. Then you don’t have a control over the final cost?
Actually, these is a basic ratio between the English word count and Chinese character count. To our experience, each 1000 Chinese characters will be translated into about 600-700 English words, or each 1000 English words will be translated into about 1500-1700 English words (depending on the nature of the text). |
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