Wanshang refers to evening and can be transliterated as late up.
2. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
去qù
木mù
福fú
The character for good fortune 福fú has an interesting derivation. It is widely seen on Chinese gifts. Just to add to confusion it is often shown ?upside down?
3. 小 Xiǎo means what in English?
eight
big
small or young
Division marks around a small object indicating smallness.
4. What is the Chinese word for green?
渔yú
绿lù
白bái
Both 绿lù and 红hóng contain the radical for silk in them, indicating the use of dyes to color cloth.
5. The possessive 'your' is expressed how in Chinese?
没有 méi yǒu
你的 nǐ de
你㝵 nǐ dé
The possessive ' 的 de' is a very common character in Chinese, it can be used with any noun to make someone or something possess it.
6. To make a sentence to indicate an action is complete as in 'gone'; 'left'; 'bought' what can you do?
Add 了le after the verb
Add 么me after the the verb
Prefix the sentence with 请qǐng
Changing the tense of a verb is easy in Chinese you do not have to learn declension or lots of new characters. Adding 了le to 买mǎi buy turns it into 买了mǎi le bought.
7. How do you bid someone welcome in Chinese?
高兴gāo xīng
时候shí hòu
欢迎huān yíng
欢迎huān yíng means Hearty Welcome and is a common greeting
8. What is the word for friend in Chinese?
朋有péng yǒu
朋友péng yǒu
兴友xīng yǒu
Both of the characters in 朋友péng yǒu indicate friendship.
9. What is the Chinese for south?
东dōng
南nán
男nán
You will find south in a number of province names including Henan; Hunan; Yunnan and in the city of Nanjing (southern capital).
10. How would you say four tickets in Chinese?
四票sì piào
四朝sì zhāo
四张票sì zhāng piào
You need to include a measure word in Chinese; you can not say just four tickets, you need to add the measure word for things that are flat 四票sì piào between the number and the noun.
11. If you want to attract the attention of a waiter what do you say?
谢谢xiè xiè
欢迎huān yíng
服务员fú wù yuán
The term 服务员fú wù yuán is roughly equivalent to uniformed attendent in English.
12. 心xīn means what in English?
Heart
Ancient
Water
Heart心xīn is used in many words and characters that have to do with emotions.
13. What is the Chinese word for walk?
走zǒu
支zhī
是shì
走zǒu is the character for walk, move, run or hasten.
14. Which word can you use to ask someone to wait
冬 dōng
来 lái
等 děng
Děng 等 is a useful word to know when traveling; it is often prefixed with please : qing deng - please wait.
15. The United States of America is called what in Chinese?
中国zhōng guó
美国měi guó
华国huá guó
美měi means beautiful on its own, so with 国guó it means beautiful country. It was chosen as a rough transliteration of America.
16. How would you say the year 2008 in Chinese?
二零八年 èr líng bā nián
两零八年 liǎng líng bā nián
二千八年 èr qiān bā nián
The 'zero' is not repeated so it is a bit like saying two thousand and eight.
17. How do you express 1,000,000 in Chinese?
十万 shí wàn
万 wàn
百万 bǎi wàn
In China, the number 10,000 was considered innumerable and is used to express 'countless' and 'myriad'. Numbers greater than 10,000 are expressed as multiples of 10,000 up to 100,000,000 which would be 10,000x10,000 and is a new character 亿 yì.
18. 三月八日sān yuè bā rì is how you would write which date?
8th March
8th August
3rd March
Dates in Chinese are easy, you just count the number of days and months.
19. Yesterday is what in Chinese
明天 míng tiān
昨天 zuó tiān
上午 shàng wǔ
昨 zuó on its own can mean yesterday. 天 tiān 'heaven' is day.
20. The Chinese character for heaven or sky is what?
广guǎng
天tiān
同tóng
The horizontal stroke on top represents the sky which is above the figure of a large man 大dà.