Heart心xīn is used in many words and characters that have to do with emotions.
6. 晚上wǎn shàng refers to which time of day?
Evening
Night
Morning
Wanshang refers to evening and can be transliterated as late up.
7. 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 吗mǎ at the end of the sentence
Add 没méi before 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.
8. What is the Chinese word for green?
六liù
绿lù
红hóng
Both 绿lù and 红hóng contain the radical for silk in them, indicating the use of dyes to color cloth.
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.
欢迎huān yíng means Hearty Welcome and is a common greeting
Teaching Chinese. Traditional characters for 'what is your name'
14. The possessive 'your' is expressed how in Chinese?
你的 nǐ de
你㝵 nǐ dé
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.
15. 小 Xiǎo means what in English?
eight
small or young
child
Division marks around a small object indicating smallness.
16. The United States of America is called what in Chinese?
中国zhōng guó
华国huá guó
美国měi 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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17. How would you say four tickets in Chinese?
四张小sì zhāng xiǎo
四张票sì zhāng piào
四钟票sì zhōng 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
19. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
福fú
孚fú
木mù
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
20. Yesterday is what in Chinese
上月 shàng yuè
上午 shàng wǔ
昨天 zuó tiān
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
Starter level quiz about the Chinese language.
