准时, 守时, 及时 and 按时 are four words related to time. They are very easily misused. The following tips help you figure out how to use them correctly. Continue reading “准时 VS 守时 VS 及时 VS 按时”
Author: Decode Mandarin Chinese
Characteristics of adverbs
Chinese adverbs mainly modify and restrict verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. They express degree, scope, time, frequency, place, manner, situation, mood, cause, correlation, negation, etc. Adverbs have very different features from other words. Here are the characteristics of adverbs in Chinese. Continue reading “Characteristics of adverbs”
How to differentiate adjectives from verbs?
Adjectives and verbs in Chinese have very similar uses. In order to use them well, it’s very necessary to differentiate them. Continue reading “How to differentiate adjectives from verbs?”
How Chinese components form phono-semantic characters?
Since most of the Chinese characters are 形声字 phono-semantic characters, it’s a major requisite to know how they are formed. Continue reading “How Chinese components form phono-semantic characters?”
有趣的四叠字！无奈你居然一个也不认识，感叹国之精粹！
大家知道三叠字，但是，不要以为就完事了，还有四叠字呢。是的，这些字非常有趣，这还是在我上课的我时候，一位学生私下和我交流的时候，说这些字也能够用相同方法来记忆。其实，当时，我很尴尬，因为在他列出来的一些字当中，我也基本上不认识几个，瞬间觉得自己是个文盲。 Continue reading “有趣的四叠字！无奈你居然一个也不认识，感叹国之精粹！”