Writing a letter

I don't have an answer but I'd like to know too! I'll see if I can ask a Chinese friend.

亲爱的 is the informal way to say "Dear" to begin a letter or you can say 尊敬的 if you want to be formal. You can also start a letter with 嗨 followed by the name. This translates as heil and is informal. Ending a letter is more difficult. I sometimes say 工作 顺利 (gongzuo shulli) which is "work smoothly" - this is like saying "take it easy". I also would like to have some more endings. Perhaps someone at Cpod can help us. -Bob

the pinyin for 工作 顺利 should have read gongzuo shunli. I can not type. The pinyin for 嗨 is hai. I hope I got those right. -RJ

This subject has popped up quite a few times now. Time for a lesson, if you ask me.

Perhaps a Qing Wen? Thanks for your help RJBerki

I vote for a Qing Wen. One other letter closing is 祝你健康！ Which wishes good health (zhou ni jian kang). -RJ

I asked that question a while back and Amber did provide useful stuff, gotta look it up, will try Bazza's trick since these conversations aren't searchable (i.e. 谷歌）

didn't work, had to do a manual search here's the post

Thanks Goulniky. The Chinese dont seem to be real big on closings (or greetings for that matter). The choices are somewhat limited it seems.

For all the casual correspondence I have with Chinese friends, we just usually begin with, 你好。