How do you say "Is there Wi-Fi?" in Chinese?

"Is there Wi-Fi?" in Chinese is 有 Wi-Fi 吗？ — written in pinyin as Yǒu Wi-Fi ma?. It is a hotel phrase you would use in China.

What does 有 Wi-Fi 吗？ mean in Chinese?

有 Wi-Fi 吗？ (Yǒu Wi-Fi ma?) means "Is there Wi-Fi?". Broken down word by word: 有 (yǒu) means "to have"; Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi) means "Wi-Fi"; 吗 (ma) means "question particle".

When would you use "Is there Wi-Fi?" in Chinese?

Ask it at a hotel desk, café or restaurant the moment you need to get online, and staff will usually point at the password on a card or read it out. Wi-Fi is said almost exactly as in English, so the only new word here is 有 — the all-purpose is-there question that starts thousands of Chinese sentences.

How to say “Is there Wi-Fi?” in Chinese

“Is there Wi-Fi?” in Chinese is 有 Wi-Fi 吗？, written in pinyin as Yǒu Wi-Fi ma?.

有 Wi-Fi 吗？

Yǒu Wi-Fi ma?

Is there Wi-Fi?

Word by word

What each part of 有 Wi-Fi 吗？ actually means.

有yǒuto have
Wi-FiWi-FiWi-Fi
吗maquestion particle

When you use it

Ask it at a hotel desk, café or restaurant the moment you need to get online, and staff will usually point at the password on a card or read it out.
Wi-Fi is said almost exactly as in English, so the only new word here is 有 — the all-purpose is-there question that starts thousands of Chinese sentences.

Use 有 Wi-Fi 吗？ in hotel situations. Check in, check out and fix things in your room.

Other ways people say it

The same idea, said differently. Roughly in the order you'll hear them.

Wi-Fi 密码是多少？
Wi-Fi mìmǎ shì duōshao?
What is the Wi-Fi password?
密码 covers every password you will type — Wi-Fi, phone unlock and payment PIN alike.
有无线网吗？
Yǒu wúxiàn wǎng ma?
Is there wireless internet?
无线网 is the fully Chinese name for Wi-Fi — useful when the English letters alone stall the conversation.
网连不上。
Wǎng lián bú shàng
I can't get connected.
不上 after a verb means the action will not complete — the same pattern as 买不到 (can't buy).

What usually trips people up

密码 (mìmǎ) is every kind of password or PIN — the card reader at checkout will ask for 密码 too, so hearing it at the register is not another Wi-Fi question.
Many cafés hand out the code printed on the receipt after you order, and hotel passwords usually live on the card in the room — looking there first can save the question entirely.
网 is not one fixed word: 无线网 is wireless internet, 上网 is to go online, and 网上 means online — the same character doing three different jobs.

What you might hear back

密码在桌上的小牌子上。Mìmǎ zài zhuō shàng de xiǎo páizi shàngThe password is on the little card on the table.
密码是房号。Mìmǎ shì fáng hàoThe password is your room number.
这边信号不好，您坐那边吧。Zhèbiān xìnhào bù hǎo, nín zuò nàbiān baThe signal is weak on this side — sit over there.

Common questions

How do you say "Is there Wi-Fi?" in Chinese?: "Is there Wi-Fi?" in Chinese is 有 Wi-Fi 吗？ — written in pinyin as Yǒu Wi-Fi ma?. It is a hotel phrase you would use in China.
What does 有 Wi-Fi 吗？ mean in Chinese?: 有 Wi-Fi 吗？ (Yǒu Wi-Fi ma?) means "Is there Wi-Fi?". Broken down word by word: 有 (yǒu) means "to have"; Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi) means "Wi-Fi"; 吗 (ma) means "question particle".
When would you use "Is there Wi-Fi?" in Chinese?: Ask it at a hotel desk, café or restaurant the moment you need to get online, and staff will usually point at the password on a card or read it out. Wi-Fi is said almost exactly as in English, so the only new word here is 有 — the all-purpose is-there question that starts thousands of Chinese sentences.

Where you'll use it

有 Wi-Fi 吗？ comes up in these situations, in this order.

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