Chinese household register (户口簿)
Hukou (户口簿) Translation into English
The hukou is the household register issued by China's Public Security Bureau. It records every member of a household, their relationship to the householder, dates and places of birth, and each change of registration. Because it links people to one another, it appears in most Chinese partner, family and student files. We translate it from $59 per page with 24-hour turnaround.
When a hukou translation may be needed in Australia
If you have been asked to evidence a family relationship, an address history or identity details for a Chinese national, the hukou is normally the document that carries them.
- If you have been asked to show parent-child or sibling relationships for a partner, family or dependent visa
- For student visa and university files where family circumstances or sponsorship must be evidenced
- Where the hukou is requested alongside a notarial certificate (公证书) as supporting proof
- For property, inheritance and family-law matters connected to China
- Where a name, date of birth or place of birth needs to be reconciled across documents
Issued by: Public Security Bureau (公安局) of the registered household district
Also searched as: household register · 户口本 · 居民户口簿 · hukou booklet
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How we translate a hukou booklet
Household registration distinguishes family households (家庭户) from collective households (集体户) — the Ministry of Public Security household-registration rules published on the Beijing municipal government site set out both (beijing.gov.cn). If you are registered in a collective household at a university or employer, you may hold a single registration card rather than a family booklet listing relatives, so check the heading on your own document before assuming it evidences a relationship. A family hukou is a booklet of pre-printed grids: a household page (户主页) followed by one page per registered person. Our NAATI-certified Chinese translators reproduce each grid in English — household number, household type, householder's name, relationship to householder, national ID number, ethnicity, place of origin (籍贯), education, occupation, and every registration change stamp on the page. We render the relationships as recorded and do not infer family history that the register does not state. Red PSB seals and handwritten amendments are described in place.
- Household page (户主页) and each individual member page (常住人口登记卡)
- Simplified and traditional characters, plus handwritten registrar entries
- Registration-change stamps and address-transfer annotations
- Characters reproduced with a standard pinyin rendering
- Works alongside 公证书 notarial certificate translations
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