3. The United States of America is called what in Chinese?
华国huá guó
美国měi guó
英国yīng 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.
Deng Xiaoping during Sino-American signing ceremony, 1st Jan 1979.
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4. How would you say four tickets in Chinese?
四张票sì zhāng piào
四朝sì zhāo
四票sì 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.
Wanshang refers to evening and can be transliterated as late up.
8. 三月八日sān yuè bā rì is how you would write which date?
8th August
8th March
3rd March
Dates in Chinese are easy, you just count the number of days and months.
9. 小 Xiǎo means what in English?
small or young
eight
smile
Division marks around a small object indicating smallness.
10. What is the Chinese for south?
东dōng
英yīng
南nán
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
11. The possessive 'your' is expressed how in Chinese?
没有 méi yǒu
你的 nǐ de
他的 tā de
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.
12. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
福fú
飞fēi
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
13. What is the Chinese word for walk?
支zhī
昨zuó
走zǒu
走zǒu is the character for walk, move, run or hasten.
15. To make a sentence to indicate an action is complete as in 'gone'; 'left'; 'bought' what can you do?
Add 吗mǎ at the end of the sentence
Add 么me after the 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.
16. How do you bid someone welcome in Chinese?
欢迎huān yíng
朋友péng yǒu
时候shí hòu
欢迎huān yíng means Hearty Welcome and is a common greeting
Teaching Chinese. Traditional characters for 'what is your name'
17. How do you express 1,000,000 in Chinese?
万 wàn
十万 shí 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.
Starter level quiz about the Chinese language.
