‘Mandarin’ is the name of the language spoken in mainland China and Singapore. Writing is preferably done using so-called ‘Simplified Chinese’, i.e. with simplified Chinese characters. The individual word is therefore represented differently. ‘Cantonese’, on the other hand, is a Chinese dialect spoken in Hong Kong. The writing there uses ‘Traditional Chinese’, i.e. traditional Chinese characters. It is quite different in Taiwan: Mandarin is spoken there, as in China (mainland) and Singapore, but written with traditional characters, as in Hong Kong.