昨 zuó on its own can mean yesterday. 天 tiān 'heaven' is day.
Wall and Moat with corner guard post defend the Forbidden City, Beijing
5. 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 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.
6. The Chinese character for heaven or sky is what?
天tiān
广guǎng
太tài
The horizontal stroke on top represents the sky which is above the figure of a large man 大dà.
14. The United States of America is called what in Chinese?
美国měi guó
中国zhōng guó
买国mǎi 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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15. How do you express 1,000,000 in Chinese?
百万 bǎi wàn
双 shuāng
十万 shí 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.
16. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
福fú
去qù
孚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’
Traditional lion dance near a temple
17. How would you say four tickets in Chinese?
四钟票sì zhōng piào
四票sì piào
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.
Starter level quiz about the Chinese language.
