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.
6. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
福fú
木mù
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
7. 晚上wǎn shàng refers to which time of day?
Afternoon
Morning
Evening
Wanshang refers to evening and can be transliterated as late up.
8. The Chinese character for heaven or sky is what?
同tóng
天tiān
太tài
The horizontal stroke on top represents the sky which is above the figure of a large man 大dà.
9. To make a sentence to indicate an action is complete as in 'gone'; 'left'; 'bought' what can you do?
Add 没méi 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.
10. How do you express 1,000,000 in Chinese?
万 wàn
百万 bǎi wàn
万百 wàn bǎi
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.
