As we have studied how Chinese characters are formed, we will study how Chinese words are formed in this post.
Continue reading “Word formation in Chinese”list of Chinese radicals 中文部首大全
Chinese radicals are used for classifying the characters in dictionaries for people to retrieve them easily. Are you looking for the complete list of Chinese radicals? There are three different versions of radicals. Continue reading “list of Chinese radicals 中文部首大全”
Formation of Compound words
Compound words account for about 80% of Chinese vocabulary. Learning compound words will accompany you all the time in the process of learning Chinese. Studying the formation of compound words will undoubtedly help you enlarge your Chinese vocabulary and understand the internal structure of Chinese words.
Continue reading “Formation of Compound words”The use of 出轨
The basic and literal meaning of 出轨 chū guǐ is: be derailed; go off the rails; jump the rails. It has two figurative meanings: Continue reading “The use of 出轨”
被骗好多年：电梯关门按键根本没用！
Most people do not have the patience to wait a few seconds for the elevator doors to shut, so they push the ‘close’ button to speed up the process. 大多数人没有等待电梯自动关闭的耐心（虽然这个过程只有几秒钟），所以他们按“关门”键来加快关门速度。 Continue reading “被骗好多年：电梯关门按键根本没用！”