Chinese (China) 中文（中国） zh-CN

Lokalized supports cardinality, cardinality range, and ordinality rules for Chinese (China).

Additional modeled concepts for Chinese (China): classifiers and counters.

Cardinalities

All numbers use CARDINALITY_OTHER; no value selects a different form.

Example: 2天.

Cardinality Ranges

Every range resolves to CARDINALITY_OTHER because every endpoint is CARDINALITY_OTHER. Cardinality.forRange(...) therefore cannot select a different form.

Ordinalities

All ordinal numbers use ORDINALITY_OTHER; no value selects a different form.

Example: 在第 2 个路口右转。.

Language-Specific Examples

These examples show how Lokalized models grammatical choices and translation behavior that commonly affect Chinese (China) application copy. Each example identifies the Lokalized language forms and other library features it uses.

Classifier and noun phrases

Passing Classifier.GENERAL, Classifier.BOUND, or Classifier.MACHINE selects the complete classifier-and-noun phrase that follows the application-supplied count: 个苹果 for apples, 本书 for books, or 台电脑 for computers.

Language references: Ohio State University - Plurals and classifiers in Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University Mandarin Training Center - 台 for machines and appliances

Lokalized forms used: Classifier

Sample localized strings file
zh-CN.json Localized Strings File (Chinese (China)) 
{
  "I bought {{count}} items.": {
    "translation": "我买了{{count}}{{item}}。",
    "placeholders": {
      "item": {
        "value": "classifier",
        "translations": {
          "CLASSIFIER_GENERAL": "个苹果",
          "CLASSIFIER_BOUND": "本书",
          "CLASSIFIER_MACHINE": "台电脑"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
Usage and expected results
Locale locale = Locale.forLanguageTag("zh-CN");

Strings strings = Strings.withFallbackLocale(locale)
  .localizedStringSupplier(() -> LocalizedStringLoader.loadFromFilesystem(Paths.get("strings")))
  .localeSupplier((matcher) -> matcher.bestMatchFor(locale))
  .build();

assertEquals("我买了3个苹果。", strings.get(
  "I bought {{count}} items.", Map.of("count", 3, "classifier", Classifier.GENERAL)
));

assertEquals("我买了2本书。", strings.get(
  "I bought {{count}} items.", Map.of("count", 2, "classifier", Classifier.BOUND)
));

assertEquals("我买了1台电脑。", strings.get(
  "I bought {{count}} items.", Map.of("count", 1, "classifier", Classifier.MACHINE)
));

Addendum: Language Form Rules

The language form expressions above are specified by Unicode Technical Standard #35 and use the following notation:

  • n absolute value of the source number (integer and decimals)
  • i integer digits of n
  • v number of visible fraction digits in n, with trailing zeros
  • w number of visible fraction digits in n, without trailing zeros
  • f visible fractional digits in n, with trailing zeros
  • t visible fractional digits in n, without trailing zeros
  • c/e compact decimal exponent operands used by some CLDR compact-number rules