Woman - Girl - Daughter in Mandarin

Now we will to talk about this “Woman” character using in Mandarin. The original pictograph for woman depicted her in a bowing position. Apparently, for ease in writing, man reduced this to a humbler form - a woman kneeling down, but not for long. The modern version nv(3) - 女 graphically portrays the big stride woman has taken to keep up with man.

Following some words using this 女 character:
女兒 -> nv(3) er(2) means ‘daughter’
女工 -> nv(3) gong(1) means ‘woman worker’
女皇 -> nv(3) huang(2) means ‘empress’
女人 -> nv(3) ren(2) means ‘woman’
女士 -> nv(3) shi(4) means ‘lady’
女王 -> nv(3) wang(2) means ‘queen’
女性 -> nv(3) xing(4) means ‘the female’
女婿 -> nv(3) xu(4) means ’son-in-law’
女子 -> nv(3) zi(3) means ‘girl or woman’
女朋友 -> nv(3) peng(2) you(3) means ‘girlfriend’
女主角 -> nv(3) zhu(2) jiao(3) means ‘female lead’
女主人 -> nv(3) zhu(3) ren(2) means ‘hostess’
婦女 -> fu(4) nv(3) means ‘woman’
子女 -> zi(3) nv(3) means ‘children’

This is an example in sentence: 我們的工廠有很多女工 -> wo(3) men(2) de gong(1) chang(3) you(3) hen(3) duo(1) nv(3) gong(1)
It means: Our factory has many woman workers.

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子 zi(3) Character Means Infand, Child, Son

This character for child originated from a representation of an infant with outstrected arms and legs. Eventually it was modified to one with legs swalddled in cloth bands. Evidently, to the chinese parent, the secret of infant carelies in keeping one end wet and the other end dry.

Sample for this character use:
子彈 zi(3) dan(4) means bullet
子弟 zi(3) di(4) means young generations
子女 zi(3) nv(3) means children
子孫 zi(3) sun(1) means descendants
子夜 zi(3) ye(4) means midnight
子音 zi(3) yin(1) means consonant
子子孫孫 zi(3) zi(3) sun(1) sun(1) means descendants
孩子 hai(2) zi(3) means child

In sentence:
這孩子很聰明 zhe(4) ge(4) hai(2) zi(3) hen(3) cong(1) ming(2) means “This child is very intelligent”

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好 hao(3) means Good, Right, Excellent

Man combined 女 (girl or daughter) with 子 (child or son) to form a character for goodness and excellence. From experience he must have found his greatest good in the possession of a wife and a child or a son and a daughter. It is also good that his wife sticks to his child.

Example Using:
好吃 hao(3) chi(1) delicious
好處 hao(3) chu(4) benefit, advantage
好感 hao(3) gan(3) good impression
好漢 hao(3) han(4) worthy man
好久 hao(3) jiu(3) a long time
好看 hao(3) kan(4) good looking
好聽 hao(3) ting(1) pleasant to the ear
好像 hao(3) xiang(4) look alike
好笑 hao(3) xiao(4) funny
好心 hao(3) xin(1) kind-hearted
好意 hao(3) yi(4) means fortunately, thanks to
好轉 hao(3) zhuan(3) means turn for the better
好人好事 hao(3) ren(2) hao(3) shi(4) means good personalities and good deeds

Sample sentence: 這首歌很好聽 means “This song is very pleasant to the ear”

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More About Countries Name in Mandarin

In the last post about geography, we have list some country or city name, and how to say it in mandarin. Now, we still continue to tell these names for you.

印尼 ‘yin(4) ni(2)’ means ‘Indonesia’
伊朗 ‘yi(1) lang(3)’ means ‘Iran’
愛爾蘭‘ai(4) er(3) lan(2)’ means ‘Ireland’
以色列 ‘yi(3) se(4) lie(4)’ means ‘Israel’
義大利 ‘yi(4) da(4) li(4)’ means ‘Italy’
日本 ‘ri(4) ben(3)’ means ‘Japan’
韓國 ‘han(2) guo(2)’ in English ‘South Korea’
倫敦 ‘lun(2) dun(1)’ in English ‘London’
洛杉磯 ‘luo(2) sheng(3)’ in English ‘Los Angeles’
澳門 ‘ao(4) men(2)’ in English ‘Macau’
馬來西亞 ‘ma(3) lai(2) xi(1) ya(4)’ means ‘Malaysia’
墨西哥 ‘mo(4) xi(1) ge(1)’ means ‘Mexico’
蒙古 ‘meng(2) gu(3)’ means ‘Mongolia’
蒙地可 ‘man(3) di(4) ke(3) means ‘Montreal’
摩洛哥 ‘mo(2) luo(4) ge(1) means ‘Morocco’
紐約 ‘niu(3) yue(1) means ‘New York’
紐西蘭 ‘niu(3) xi(1) lan(2)’ in English ‘New Zealand’
北美洲 ‘bei(2) mei(3) zhou(1) means ‘North America’
挪威 ‘nuo(2) wei(1)’ means ‘Norway’
巴基斯坦 ‘ba(1) ji(1) si(1) tan(3)’ means ‘Pakistan’
巴黎 ‘ba(1) li(2)’ means ‘Paris’
北京 ‘bei(3) jing(1)’ means ‘Peking/Beijing’
祕魯 ‘mi(4) lu(3)’ means ‘Peru’
費城 ‘fei(4) cheng(2)’ means ‘Philadelphia’
菲律賓 ‘fei(1) lii(4) bin(1)’ means ‘Philippines’
波蘭 ‘bo(1) lan(2)’ means ‘Poland’
葡萄牙 ‘pu(2) tao(2) ya(2)’ means ‘Portugal’
羅馬 ‘luo(2) ma(3)’ in English ‘Rome’
俄國 ‘e(2) guo(2)’ in English ‘Russia’
三藩市 ‘san(1) fan(1) shi(4)’ in English ‘San Francisco’

I think there are many country or city that’s not here, sorry there are too many. I can’t post all now, I promise to post it at the next post, but if you have a problem about it, just ask me, I will try to answer it.

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Commercial Terms Part II

As I promise at the last post about Commercial Terms, Now I will continue with same topic with other words for you. Right, see this below words:

發票 ‘fa(1) piao(4)’ means ‘invoice’
喪失 ‘sun(3) shi(1)’ means ‘loss’
經理 ‘jing(1) li(3)’ means ‘manager’
市價 ‘mai(4) jia(4) means ‘market price’

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About Geography Name in Chinese Part III

At the last two post, I haven’t finished the geography name yet. Now I will post it all of it I got. But those maybe still some that’s not here. Ok, we continue our lessons…

沙地阿拉伯 ‘sha(1) di(4) a(1) la(1) bo(2)’ this means ‘Saudi Arabia’
西雅? ‘xi(1) ya(3) tu(2)’ means ‘Seattle’
上海 ‘shang(4) hai(3)’ means ‘Shanghai’
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Published March 25th, 2007 in Vocabulary

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Commercial Terms Part I

Long time no see, I think about more than a month I didn’t post anything. Sorry for that. Ok now we continue with another topic ‘Commercial Terms’ see the following words with related with it.

廣告 ‘guang(3) gao(4)’ in English ‘advertisement’
恕不退換 ‘shu(4) bu(4) tui(4) huan(4)’ means ‘all sales final’
公債 ‘gong(1) zhai(4)’ means ‘bonds’
牌子 ‘pai(2) zi(3)’ means ‘brand’
買 ‘mai(3)’ means ‘buy’
計算機 ‘ji(4) suan(4) ji(1)’ means ‘calculator’
資本 ‘zi(1) ben(3)’ means ‘capital’
現金 ‘xian(4) jin(1)’ means ‘cash’
收銀櫃 ‘shou(1) yin(2) gui(4)’ means ‘cash register’
清關 ‘qing(1) huo(4)’ means ‘clearance’
商業的 ‘shang(1) ye(4) de’ means ‘commercial’
佣金 ‘yong(1) jin(1)’ means ‘commission’
公司 ‘gong(1) si(1)’ means ‘company, corporation’
電腦 ‘dian(4) nao(3)’ means ‘computer’
合同 ‘he(2) tong(2)’ means ‘contract’
信用 ‘xin(4) yong(4)’ means ‘credit’
顧客 ‘gu(4) ke(4)’ means ‘customer’
折扣 ‘zhe(2) kou(4)’ means ‘discount’
供需 ‘gong(4) xiao(1)’ means ‘distribution’
開支 ‘kai(1) zhi(1)’ means ‘expense’
出口 ‘chu(1) kou(3)’ means ‘export’
解雇 ‘jie(3) gu(4)’ means ‘fire (a worker)’
不二價 ‘bu(2) er(4) jia(4)’ means ‘fixed price’
聘請 ‘pin(4) qing(3)’ means ‘hire’
入口 ‘ru(4) kou(3)’ means ‘import’
面談 ‘mian(4) tan(2)’ means ‘interview’

Those are some words related for the commercial terms, you can see the update later.

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