The eight cards
Designed for a phone screen: large type, high contrast, no scrolling when you're showing someone. Tap any card to save it — they're free.
Eight bilingual cards for the exact moments China travel guides skip — the ones where you're standing at a counter with a queue behind you. Show the Chinese side. Read the English side. Get unstuck in under a minute.
Free, no signup, no email. Phone-sized images + one print-ready PDF · works offline
Every guide tells you how to set things up. Almost none tell you what to do when the setup fails — on a Sunday, with no English-speaking staff, and your bank app throwing an error you've never seen.
Eight situations, in the order they actually happen to travellers: payment, hotel, taxi, trains, medical, lost, invoices, emergencies.
Each card leads with large, plain Chinese written for a clerk or driver — not machine-translated slogans. No explaining in broken Mandarin.
The English side gives the three moves that actually work, including the official channel and the fallback that always works.
Card 1 — payment declined. This is the one people need most often.
不好意思，我的外国银行卡刚才支付失败了。可能是银行的安全验证，不是余额不足。请问可以换一种方式吗？
① 我再试一次，请稍等 ② 我用现金 ③ 请帮我看看金额对不对。谢谢您！
Designed for a phone screen: large type, high contrast, no scrolling when you're showing someone. Tap any card to save it — they're free.
Written from inside China, by someone who lives with the systems that confuse visitors — and updates the cards as the rules change.
No. Save the images to your phone and they open offline — which matters, because the moment you need card 6 is usually the moment your data stops working.
Every Chinese line is written to be read by a clerk, driver or front desk — short, polite, and unambiguous. Large type, plain wording, no slang.
Yes. It's designed for smaller cities and independent hotels, where English is least available and a written Chinese sentence does the most work.
Yes — no payment, no email, no account. Save the images, print the PDF, send the link to whoever is flying to China.
Each card carries a verification date. When China changes a rule, the cards change and the date moves with them.
Eight cards. Two minutes to save to your phone. Free, and free to share.
No signup · no email · works offline · last verified 2026-10-18
