[This is my Trail] Favorite Chinese Characters

[Rachelle]

Since I’m taking a Chinese test for the US government on Thursday, I thought I would share some of my favorite Chinese characters. Unfortunately, the test is only oral, so there will be no writing or reading....and therefore this post is totally un-useful...oh well.

Concave - 凹的 (ao de)

Convex - 凸的 (tu de)

Pingpong - 乒乓球 (pingpong qiu) Doesn’t it just look like a pingpong table?! Love it!

Also, the Chinese are apparently very math-literate. I learned a few weeks ago that in Chinese you can actually say you did something more than "n" times (n 多次), kind of like we would say a "gazillion." However, instead of making up a word, they use math. Aiya. Those Chinese and their math and science skills.

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Posted By Rachelle to This is my Trail at 7/21/2009 05:56:00 PM