1. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
去qù
福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
2. How do you express 1,000,000 in Chinese?
百万 bǎi wàn
万百 wàn bǎi
双 shuāng
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.
8. The possessive 'your' is expressed how in Chinese?
你㝵 nǐ dé
你的 nǐ de
没有 méi yǒu
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.
9. 三月八日sān yuè bā rì is how you would write which date?
3rd March
8th August
8th March
Dates in Chinese are easy, you just count the number of days and months.
10. The United States of America is called what in Chinese?
中国zhōng guó
美国měi 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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11. 晚上wǎn shàng refers to which time of day?
Afternoon
Day break
Evening
Wanshang refers to evening and can be transliterated as late up.
12. 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 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.
13. 小 Xiǎo means what in English?
small or young
school
eight
Division marks around a small object indicating smallness.
14. How do you bid someone welcome in Chinese?
高兴gāo xīng
欢迎huān yíng
再见zài jiàn
欢迎huān yíng means Hearty Welcome and is a common greeting
Teaching Chinese. Traditional characters for 'what is your name'
15. What is the Chinese word for green?
绿lǜ
六liù
白bái
Both 绿lǜ and 红hóng contain the radical for silk in them, indicating the use of dyes to color cloth.
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.