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Is this Chinese or what? - Person - 10-12-2012 01:55 AM Well, A long time ago, I discovered my friend's twitter and this is what she wrote and it's supposed to be in chinese which I don't think its chinese but here it is: Zài jiàn What exactly does that mean? Please answer!!! - Bill W - 10-12-2012 02:03 AM Yes, it's Chinese. It means good-bye, or more accurately, see you later. - cimonepugh - 10-12-2012 02:03 AM Yep. It means 'good bye' in Chinese. (It's written in Pinyin, the romanzied form of the Chinese language.) - H. M. C - 10-12-2012 02:03 AM Bill says it means see you later .. Close enough. However, the literal translation is See you again. 再 zai means again 見 jian means see. - Elena S - 10-12-2012 02:03 AM it's phonetic transcription called pinyin... the phrase you posted means "see you later"... in Chinese it looks like this ->再见