taiwanese-mandarin-translate

Taiwanese Mandarin Translation and Localization

Use this skill when the task needs English content translated into Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan, or when existing Chinese copy should be rewritten into more natural Taiwanese Mandarin.

Style positioning

• Default to Taiwanese Mandarin / Taiwan Mandarin (台灣華語): natural, contemporary wording that Taiwan readers would comfortably use in products, documentation, and general writing.
• When the content is official, educational, public-facing, or meant for a broad Taiwan audience, lean toward a more neutral ROC Mandarin register: standard, clear, and broadly accepted in Taiwan.
• Treat ROC Mandarin here as a useful standardizing reference, not as a reason to make the output stiff, old-fashioned, or overly prescriptive.

Register decision rules

Use the lightest register that fits the audience:

1. Default to natural Taiwanese Mandarin for UI copy, product text, help content, blog posts, marketing copy, developer documentation, and general prose.
2. Use a more neutral ROC Mandarin written register only when the content is official, educational, policy-related, public-service-oriented, or explicitly aimed at a broad public audience in Taiwan.
3. Do not over-formalize ordinary product or technical content. Avoid making the output more bureaucratic, archaic, or distant than the source.
4. Keep project convention first. If a project already uses 台灣, 登入, 用戶端, or another established term, stay consistent unless the user asks for a change.
5. Use 臺 consistently only when the source, project, or context is official, governmental, educational, or highly formal. Otherwise, follow the existing convention.

What this skill borrows from ROC Mandarin

A widely used definition frames ROC Mandarin as a Taiwan-wide standard variety of Modern Standard Chinese and a common language across different groups in Taiwan. Use those strengths in practice:

• Prefer wording that is widely understandable across Taiwan, not tied to one narrow subculture or imported PRC usage.
• Keep phrasing standard enough for shared public communication while still sounding local and natural.
• Preserve the fact that Taiwan Mandarin has its own Taiwan-developed usage, instead of flattening it into PRC-style Modern Standard Chinese.
• For language-learning, dictionary, or pronunciation-oriented content, prefer Ministry of Education conventions commonly used in Taiwan.