Wanshang refers to evening and can be transliterated as late up.
2. How would you say four tickets in Chinese?
四张票sì zhāng piào
四钟票sì zhōng piào
五张票wǔ 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.
You will find south in a number of province names including Henan; Hunan; Yunnan and in the city of Nanjing (southern capital).
Division of a traditional Feng Shui compass
6. To make a sentence to indicate an action is complete as in 'gone'; 'left'; 'bought' what can you do?
Add 么me after the the verb
Add 了le before the verb
Add 了le after the verb
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. If you want to attract the attention of a waiter what do you say?
服务员fú wù yuán
医生yī shēng
同志tóng zhì
The term 服务员fú wù yuán is roughly equivalent to uniformed attendent in English.
9. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
福fú
木mù
去qù
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?
Traditional lion dance near a temple
10. 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.
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.
Starter level quiz about the Chinese language.
