Format of Chinese Letters（中文信件的格式） – How to Write Letters in Chinese? 怎么用中文写信？

To make more friends in China, you need to know how to write letters in Chinese.

为了在中国交到更多朋友，你需要知道怎么用中文来写信。

Here is an example:

这里有个例子：

Respected Professor Chen：

敬爱的陈教授：

Thank you for inviting me to attend the 97th anniversary of Xiamen University. It is my great honor. I will arrive Xiamen around the afternoon of this Friday, and I want to visit you at your house on Friday evening. I hope you will be available then.

谢谢您邀请我回校参加厦门大学97周年的校庆！这是我莫大的荣幸。我大约这周五下午到厦门。我希望周五晚上能去您家拜访您，希望您那时候有空。

                                                          Truly Yours,

   Wang Jun

王军敬上

November 15^th, 2018

2018年11月15日

1.The format of Chinese letters is basically the same as English letters. The names of the recipients and the senders must be written.

和英文信件的格式大体相同。收信人和寄信人的名字必须要写出。

Before the names of the recipients, these adjectives can be added:

在收信人署名前可以加上这些修饰语：

“Respected” + “teachers or older people”

“敬爱的”+ 老师或者长辈

Or

或者

“Dear” + “close friends”

“亲爱的”+ 亲密的朋友

2.For the body part, leave blank spaces of TWO Chinese characters at the beginning of each paragraph. This is also the requirement of all formal Chinese writings.

正文的每段开头都要空两个中文汉字的空间。这也是所有正式的中文写作的必要要求。

3.The name of the sender of the letter: You can directly write down the name or add some adjectives before or after the name. For example:

寄信人署名:可以直接署名或者在名字前或名字后加上一些修饰，比如：

“XX（yours name）”+“敬上” → when you are writing to teachers or older or somebody you respect

“您的学生（your students）”+“XX（yours name）” → only when you are writing to your teachers

“想你的（who is missing you）” + “XX（yours name）” → only when you are writing to close friends or your partner

4.Date 日期

Different from the way that people write dates in English, the date in Chinese is written in the order of year-month-day.

和英文中写日期的习惯不同，中文的日期是按照 年-月-日 的顺序额排列的。

For example：

例如：2019年5月14日 = May 14^th, 2019

However, the business writing of Chinese is different from writing the letters to friends, and we will introduce you some basic skills of business Chinese writing next time.

但商务中文的写作和写信给朋友有一些不同。下一次我们会教大家商务中文写作的技巧。

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