what language do chinese?
Chinese
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 Standard Mandarin , a variety of Mandarin based on the Beijing dialect , is the official national language of China and is used as a lingua franca in the country between people of different linguistic backgrounds . 

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 Chinese characters are also used within China to write non @-@ Han languages . The largest non @-@ Han group in China , the Zhuang , have for over 1300 years used Chinese characters . Despite both the introduction of an official alphabetic script in 1957 and lack of a corresponding official set of Chinese characters , more Zhuang people can read the Zhuang logograms than the alphabetic script . 

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 Simplified Chinese is standard in the People 's Republic of China , Singapore , and Malaysia . Traditional Chinese is retained in Hong Kong , Taiwan , Macau and overseas Chinese communities ( except Singapore and Malaysia ) . Throughout this article , Chinese text is given in both simplified and traditional forms when they differ , with the traditional forms being given first . 

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 Chinese uses traditional logograms for writing the unit names , while in Japanese unit names are written in the phonetic katakana script ; in both cases , symbols are also written using the internationally recognised Latin and Greek characters . 

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 Some Chinese characters have been adopted as part of the writing systems of other East Asian languages , such as Japanese , Korean , and ( formerly ) Vietnamese . 
