6. Ellipsis: For ellipsis, it is six "......" instead of "..." in English.

7. Brackets: These are used in a similar way to English.

8. Capitalisation: We don't have capitalisation. If we want to highlight something, we can use bold fonts/characters.

Section Three - Measurements and Abbreviations

1. Measurements: In most cases we use metric systems. But for the size of computer monitors, TV screens, computer disks we use imperial measurements.

There are some measurements which are specific to Chinese, i.e.

"Chi (尺)" for length, one meter = 3尺; It is usually used for garment making.
And we also have "MU (畝)" for land area, one hectare = 15 畝. It is usually used in the countryside.

Time: The times 10.30 am / noon / 4.30 pm / midnight would be written in the following way:

上午10点30分／中午／下午4点30分／午夜

Date: For the date formats for 20 February 2004, 20th February 2004 and 20/02/2004, both 2004年2月20日and 二00四年二月二十日 are applicable. But if it is on a commercial invoice or a check it will be like this:
貳零零肆年貳月貳拾日

For February 20, use: 2月20日, or 二月二十日

In Chinese, we just use a point to indicate decimals like π = 3.14156. and we use a comma for 4-digit numbers and numbers of more than 4 digits, such as:
1,000; 1,258,740 etc.

Currency: For Chinese yuan, we have CNY that stands for Chinese Yuan, and RMB that stands for (Ren Min Bi that means People's money) and symbol is ¥. e.g. ¥50.00 per piece etc.

Spacing before measurements is not always necessary, i.e. 30°C will do.

2. Abbreviations:

N/a
No. (nos.)
e.g.
WxLxHxD
1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4th
Mr. / Mrs.
Messrs.
Miss
Dear Sir / Madam
m (for metre)
cm (for centimetre)
lb (for pound weight)
g (for gram)
km (for kilometre)
yr (for year)
k (for 1000)
EMEA (Europe, Middle-East & Asia)
Days of the week: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun
Months: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (not normally abbreviated in English)

As a matter of fact, in Chinese we usually do not have abbreviations for the above. As for weight, length and measurements we sometimes use English, such as: m, cm, kg, g etc.

3. Numerals: Chinese has native numerals (i.e. not recognisable in Roman terms!) but also uses Western numbering, either instead of, or in combination with its own numbering system.

In Chinese, we have two systems of native numerals, they are:

The second system here is normally used in bank notes, commercial invoices, bills etc very formal situation as they are more difficult to be changed. The above are in simplified Chinese. If in traditional Chinese, they are:

As you can see they are a little different.

Section Four - Hyphenation

Hyphenation is not really used. An English word is represented by either one, two or sometimes more Chinese characters, and there are no spaces left between words. Characters are therefore not like letters, so it does not matter where the line break comes.

Please note that at the beginning of each sentence, a hyphen for punctuation is usually not allowed except in cases where something has to be listed like:

then the "-" can be used at the beginning.

When we use dashes, we normally use the longer "M" dashes (—).

Section Five - Miscellaneous Peculiarities

Fancy fonts are not used to stress things; instead calligraphy is occasionally used to indicate special significance.

Surnames are nor lly given before the first name.

Section Six - Geographic Distribution

Chinese is spoken by more people than any other language in the world. Since estimates of the current population of China are only approximate, figures for the number of speakers of Chinese must likewise be approximate. An educated guess would be about 1.1 billion in the People's Republic of China, to which must be added another 20 million on Taiwan, 5 million in Hong Kong, 4 million in Malaysia, 1¾ million in Singapore, one million in Vietnam, and lesser numbers in other countries including the United States and United Kingdom. Thus Chinese has more than twice the number of speakers of English, though of course it lacks the universality of English and is spoken by few people not of Chinese origin.

Chinese has been an official language of the United Nations since the founding of the organization in 1945. Though Chinese has many dialects, Mandarin, based on the pronunciation of Beijing[H1], is considered the standard and is spoken by about two-thirds of the population. The other major dialects are (1) Wu (50 million speakers), (2) Cantonese (45 million speakers), (3) Fukienese, or Min (45 million speakers - generally subdivided into Northern Fukienese or Foochow - 15 million, and Southern Fukienese or Amoy - 30 million), (4) Hakka (20 million speakers), (5) Ilsiang (15 million speakers). In addition the Fukienese dialects are widely spoken in Malaysia and Singapore, while Cantonese is also spoken in Hong Kong and on the Southeast Asia mainland. Nearly all Chinese in the United States speak Cantonese.

Chinese is spoken/used in the following countries:

Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, China, Guam (U.S.), Hawaii (U.S. State), Hong Kong, Laos, Macao (Portuguese), Malaysia, Mauritius, Paracel Islands, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam.

Language Family
Family: Sinitic

Source: http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Chinese - Copyright © Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, Published by Routledge.