Division marks around a small object indicating smallness.
2. How do you bid someone welcome in Chinese?
再见zài jiàn
朋友péng yǒu
欢迎huān yíng
欢迎huān yíng means Hearty Welcome and is a common greeting
Teaching Chinese. Traditional characters for 'what is your name'
3. Which character for good fortune is widely seen at Chinese New Year?
木mù
孚fú
福fú
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
4. How would you say the year 2008 in Chinese?
二零零八年 èr líng líng bā nián
二零八年 èr líng 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.
10. The possessive 'your' is expressed how in Chinese?
你㝵 nǐ dé
没有 méi yǒu
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.
11. 三月八日sān yuè bā rì is how you would write which date?
8th March
3rd August
3rd September
Dates in Chinese are easy, you just count the number of days and months.
12. How do you express 1,000,000 in Chinese?
百万 bǎi wàn
十万 shí wàn
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.
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
14. 晚上wǎn shàng refers to which time of day?
Evening
Afternoon
Night
Wanshang refers to evening and can be transliterated as late up.
15. The United States of America is called what in Chinese?
美国měi guó
华国huá 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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16. 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 没méi before the verb
Add 么me after the 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.
17. What is the word for friend in Chinese?
朋友péng yǒu
兴友xīng yǒu
平有píng yǒu
Both of the characters in 朋友péng yǒu indicate friendship.
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.
Starter level quiz about the Chinese language.
