欢迎huān yíng means Hearty Welcome and is a common greeting
2. 小 Xiǎo means what in English?
small or young
big
eight
Division marks around a small object indicating smallness.
3. 晚上wǎn shàng refers to which time of day?
Evening
Afternoon
Day break
Wanshang refers to evening and can be transliterated as late up.
4. 三月八日sān yuè bā rì is how you would write which date?
8th March
3rd March
8th August
Dates in Chinese are easy, you just count the number of days and months.
5. What is the word for friend in Chinese?
朋有péng yǒu
兴友xīng yǒu
朋友péng yǒu
Both of the characters in 朋友péng yǒu indicate friendship.
6. 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 after the verb
Add 了le 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.
7. If you want to attract the attention of a waiter what do you say?
同志tóng zhì
医生yī shēng
服务员fú wù yuán
The term 服务员fú wù yuán is roughly equivalent to uniformed attendent in English.
8. 心xīn means what in English?
Heart
Ancient
Fewer
Heart心xīn is used in many words and characters that have to do with emotions.
9. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
木mù
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?
10. Which word can you use to ask someone to wait
等 děng
儅 dāng
来 lái
Děng 等 is a useful word to know when traveling; it is often prefixed with please : qing deng - please wait.
11. Yesterday is what in Chinese
来年 lái nián
昨天 zuó tiān
明天 míng tiān
昨 zuó on its own can mean yesterday. 天 tiān 'heaven' is day.
12. How would you say the year 2008 in Chinese?
二零八年 èr líng bā nián
二千八年 èr qiān bā nián
两零八年 liǎng líng bā nián
The 'zero' is not repeated so it is a bit like saying two thousand and eight.
13. The Chinese character for heaven or sky is what?
天tiān
大dà
太tài
The horizontal stroke on top represents the sky which is above the figure of a large man 大dà.
14. What is the Chinese word for green?
红hóng
绿lù
六liù
Both 绿lù and 红hóng contain the radical for silk in them, indicating the use of dyes to color cloth.
15. How would you say four tickets in Chinese?
四张票sì zhāng piào
四钟票sì zhōng piào
五张票wǔ 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.
16. How do you express 1,000,000 in Chinese?
千千 qiān qiān
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.
17. What is the Chinese for south?
男nán
北běi
南nán
You will find south in a number of province names including Henan; Hunan; Yunnan and in the city of Nanjing (southern capital).
18. The United States of America is called what in Chinese?
中国zhōng guó
美国měi guó
华国huá 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.
19. The possessive 'your' is expressed how in Chinese?
没有 méi yǒu
的你 de nǐ
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.
20. What is the Chinese word for walk?
支zhī
走zǒu
昨zuó
走zǒu is the character for walk, move, run or hasten.