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Chinese medical interpreters

On-demand medical interpretation in Chinese, ready the moment a visit starts, on the devices your teams already carry.

Dialects supported by Opalite:Mandarin (Simplified)Mandarin (Traditional)CantoneseHokkien (Min Nan)

There are 3.5 million speakers of Chinese in the United States.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

California

1,223,900Chinese speakers

3.3% of residents · #1 nationwide

Darker states have more Chinese speakers; shading is logarithmic, relative to the state with the most speakers.

Chinese speakers by state
StateSpeakers
California1,223,900
New York588,020
Texas159,650
Massachusetts140,380
Washington120,720
Pennsylvania83,640
New Jersey83,600
Illinois70,740
Maryland65,030
Florida52,200
Virginia44,170
Ohio35,690
Georgia35,600
Michigan32,550
Hawaii32,261
Nevada31,552
Oregon30,319
Arizona28,394
North Carolina28,330
Connecticut21,960
Missouri20,378
Indiana18,410
Minnesota16,420
Colorado15,860
Utah13,411
Wisconsin12,090
Tennessee11,980
Kansas11,493
Alabama9,929
Louisiana8,826
Delaware7,929
South Carolina7,760
Oklahoma7,452
Iowa7,354
Kentucky6,035
Rhode Island5,537
District of Columbia5,126
Idaho4,009
New Hampshire3,981
Arkansas3,795
Nebraska3,624
New Mexico3,372
Mississippi3,019
Maine2,673
Vermont1,723
West Virginia1,510
North Dakota1,145
Alaska1,129
Wyoming984
Montana818
South Dakota804

State counts reflect the 15 most reported non-English languages in each state’s ACS table. States where Chinese falls outside the top 15 are shown without shading; the national total includes every state.

The ACS reports most Mandarin and Cantonese speakers under a single Chinese category; figures combine all Chinese categories.

1.8 million

speakers of Chinese speak English less than “very well”: the federal threshold for needing language assistance.

52%

of Chinese speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.

1.2 million

people speak Chinese at home in California alone.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Common questions about Chinese interpretation

Three states hold 57% of the nation’s Chinese speakers, and Chinese ranks in the published top-15 language tables of all 50 states and Washington, DC.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Opalite interprets word for word, capturing every detail a patient shares, and made fewer major and critical errors than certified interpreters in blinded testing. Opalite Guardian monitors quality in real time and automatically triggers re-translation when needed.

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