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I have figured it out experimentally (Chrome & Ukrainian): if you visit a website in language X and click Never Translate, Chrome silently adds language X to the end of the list (Accept-Language that is). I have not found a way to forcibly turn it off.

Edit: check out chrome://translate-internals/ if you are interested

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...

The Accept-Language HTTP request header is my guess

I get the same question (after a while) here: https://www.wpf-tutorial.com/

This was probably set at the operating system level, i.e. you selected "zh_ZH"/Chinese at some point during setup. Upon installing a browser, it reads your OS language preference & then passes that through to websites via the accept-language header.