Wanshang refers to evening and can be transliterated as late up.
5. How would you say four tickets in Chinese?
四张小sì zhāng xiǎo
四张票sì zhāng piào
四朝sì zhāo
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.
8. To make a sentence to indicate an action is complete as in 'gone'; 'left'; 'bought' what can you do?
Add 了le before the verb
Add 吗mǎ at the end of the sentence
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.
9. The Chinese character for heaven or sky is what?
天tiān
田tián
太tài
The horizontal stroke on top represents the sky which is above the figure of a large man 大dà.
13. The possessive 'your' is expressed how in Chinese?
你㝵 nǐ dé
他的 tā de
你的 nǐ 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.
14. How do you bid someone welcome in Chinese?
欢迎huān yíng
朋友péng yǒu
先生xiān shēng
欢迎huān yíng means Hearty Welcome and is a common greeting
Teaching Chinese. Traditional characters for 'what is your name'
15. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
去qù
福fú
飞fēi
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
16. 小 Xiǎo means what in English?
eight
small or young
smile
Division marks around a small object indicating smallness.
17. 心xīn means what in English?
Heart
Fewer
Ancient
Heart心xīn is used in many words and characters that are to do with emotions.
18. If you want to attract the attention of a waiter what do you say?
欢迎huān yíng
同志tóng zhì
服务员fú wù yuán
The term 服务员fú wù yuán is roughly equivalent to uniformed attendent in English.
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.
