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weishenyu · 4 months

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chinese art compliments/replies

as a follow up to my post on online drawing vocab, here is a collection of comments you can use to compliment others' art :-)

the basics

喜欢 [xǐhuān] - i like it

好好看 [hǎohǎo kàn] - looks good

厉害 [lìhài] - amazing

好漂亮/帥/美 [piàoliang/shuài/měi] - so pretty/handsome/beautiful

太有才了 [tài yǒu cáile] - so talented (similarily, 画画天才 => drawing genius)

好神 [hǎo shén] - godly

神迹 [shén jī] - miraculous

仙品 [xiān pǐn] - high-quality product

好鮮活 [xiān huó] - vivid/lifelike

it’s cute

可爱晕了 [kě'ài yūnle] - so cute i fainted

可爱死了 [kě'ài sǐle] - so cute I died

可爱鼠了 [kě'ài shǔle] - so cute I died (in a cutesy/meme way)

卡瓦 [kǎ wǎ] - kawaii

好米 [hǎo mǐ] - so cute/beautiful

太萌了 [tài méngle] - so adorable (originating from japanese word moe - 萌え, lots of different meanings, but mostly refers to happiness you feel when you see something really cute), can be used like 萌到我了/被萌晕/心被萌化了

basically any XX死了/XX暈了/XX炸了 comment works

expletives

我去 [wǒ qù] - damn

卧槽/我草/wc [wò cāo] - censored vers of 我操 => oh fuck

牛逼 [niú bī] - (fucking) awesome, usually just use 牛

exclamatives

哇/哇塞 [wasāi] - wow

啊啊啊啊 - aaaaaa

哇啊啊啊 - wahhhh

responding to compliments

被老師跨了，能力暴增 [kuà...bào zēng] - (if responding to commenter who's also an artist) compliments from teacher make my ability surge

爱您主人 - love u op (主人 refers to original commenter), can also just use 愛你

嘿嘿谢谢喜欢 - hehe ty for liking

比心 [bǐ xīn]- finger heart

送愛 [sòng ài] - sending love

亲亲 [qīn qīn] - kiss kiss

questions

可以当头像吗 [tóuxiàng] - can I make it my pfp

可以自印吗 [zì yìn] - can I print it out

可以收集吗 [shōují] - can I save it

求原图 [qiú yuán tú] - original image pls

这么时候接稿 [jiē gǎo]- when will you open commissions

misc.

抱走/拿走 [bào/ná zǒu] - carrying/taking it away

蹲蹲 [dūn dūn] - if someone has posted a WIP, waiting (for the finished piece/shop listing), direct trans. = squatting

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slavic-roots-western-mind · 20 days

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The 然's

突然，虽然，忽然. and the other 然's can often get mixed up, so here's a quick explanation of some of the most common ones!

突然 (Túrán): This means suddenly or unexpectedly

居然 (Jūrán): This kind of means suddenly, but more in the sense of "surprisingly" or to suggest disbelief at something that happened.

忽然 (Hūrán): This also means suddenly or unexpectedly, but it has a more stronger connotation.

既然 (Jìrán): This is a conjunction meaning "since" or "now that"

既然the weather is great, let's go out!

既然 you aren't busy, let's go watch a movie.

不然 (Bùrán): This means "otherwise" or "or else";

You should study, 不然 you won't do well on the exam.

虽然 (Suīrán): This means although or even though.

虽然 I'm not good at singing, I still like to go to the karaoke.

当然 (Dāngrán): 当然 means certainly or definitely and can be used as a reply:

Can you help me with A? 当然!

自然 (Zìrán): This can mean nature or naturally.

China's 自然 is very beautiful.

She speaks Chinese 得很自然.

仍然 (Réngrán): This can mean "still" or "yet".

I仍然 haven't read that book.

依然 (Yīrán): Similar to 仍然, this also means still" or "yet" but it's usually used in more formal and literary works, whereas 仍然 is more often used in spoken language.

果然 (Guǒrán): 果然 can be used to mean "indeed" or "as expected"

This movie is 果然 interesting.

竟然 (Jìngrán): This is an adverb used to suggest surprise or something unexpected.

He竟然forgot her birthday.

显然 (Xiǎnrán): This means "clearly" or "obviously".

This soup 显然 hot.

偶然 (Ǒur��n): This means "accidentally" or "by chance".

We 偶然 met at the same cafe.

How many other 然's do you know about? Drop a comment!

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linghxr · 1 year

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Chinese Time of Day Vocabulary

I’ve been keeping a list of words/characters related to times of day since last year. You probably know basic words like 早上, 上午, 晚上, etc. But there are so many other words and characters you may encounter in your language journey! Note: this list isn’t meant to be complete.

Sunset (I think) by Tian’anmen Square about 3 years ago.

Dawn/early morning

天亮 tiānliàng - dawn / daybreak

日出 rìchū - sunrise

早 zǎo - early / morning / Good morning! / long ago / prematurely 一大早 yīdàzǎo - at dawn / at first light / first thing in the morning 早上 zǎoshang - early morning

旭 xù - dawn / rising sun

昕 xīn - dawn

晓 xiǎo - dawn / daybreak / to know / to let sb know / to make explicit 破晓 pòxiǎo - daybreak / dawn

晗 hán - before daybreak / dawn about to break

晞 xī - dawn / to dry in the sun

晨 chén - morning / dawn / daybreak 凌晨 língchén - very early in the morning / in the wee hours 早晨 zǎochén - early morning 晨曦 chénxī - first rays of morning sun / first glimmer of dawn 清晨 qīngchén - early morning

朝 zhāo - morning 朝阳 zhāoyáng - the morning sun

黎明 límíng - dawn / daybreak

The single characters above can be found in Chinese names. Some are quite common.

Daytime

午 wǔ - 7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon 上午 shàngwǔ - morning 下午 xiàwǔ - afternoon 中午 zhōngwǔ - noon / midday 午前 wǔqián morning / a.m. 午后 wǔhòu - afternoon

昼 zhòu - daytime 白昼 báizhòu - daytime

白天 báitiān - daytime / during the day / day

白日 báirì - daytime / sun / time

Dusk/evening

晚 wǎn - evening / night / late 傍晚 bàngwǎn - in the evening / when night falls / towards evening / at night fall / at dusk

夕 xī - dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. xì 夕阳 xīyáng - sunset / the setting sun

天黑 tiānhēi - to get dark / dusk

日落 rìluò - sundown / sunset

暮 mù - evening / sunset

汐 xī - night tides / evening ebbtide / Taiwan pr. xì

霞 xiá - rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset 晚霞 wǎnxiá - sunset glow / sunset clouds / afterglow 彩霞 cǎixiá - clouds tinged with sunset hues

黄昏 huánghūn - dusk / evening / nightfall

Night

夜 yè - night 半夜 bànyè - midnight / in the middle of the night 夜晚 yèwǎn - night 夜深人静 yèshēnrénjìng - in the dead of night (idiom) 夜色 yèsè - night scene / the dim light of night 夜里 yèli - during the night / at night / nighttime 夜间 yèjiān - nighttime / evening or night 大半夜 dàbànyè - the middle of the night 深夜 shēnyè - very late at night 黑夜 hēiyè - night

宵 xiāo - night

晚间 wǎnjiān - evening / night

Now hopefully you have some more words to describe beautiful sunrises and sunsets and everything in between 🌄🌇

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chineseffect · 1 year

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Speak DECENT CHINESE in 4 months - 8 easy tips

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1. Have someone to guide you to get good pronunciation habits. It is almost impossible to re-learn bad habits later so make sure you get your pronunciation right from the beginning. I mean the pronunciation of the sounds, not the tones. Tones take more time to get used to and you can't rush it - but try the best you can. Some tutors don't bother too much about the pronunciation so make sure you find someone who is strict about that, you will be grateful later. Also get confident in pinyin, you will need it.

2. Understand the composition of the sentences. The word order is super easy and it stays the same all the time (the question and informative sentences have the same word order). I have a formula for the word order but I won't reveal it here, it is one of the secrets I keep for my students and people who use my materials.

3. Understand that there are no tenses in the sense we think about them in English and other languages. Learn to express future, potential future, finished action, change of state, experience in the past and circumstances of the event. See the difference between action verbs and verbs of state.

4. Learn to use modal verbs and conjuctions.

5. Build usable vocabulary based on the fact that everything in Chinese is interconnected.

6. Understand 就，才，的 and 得

7. Don't learn grammar rules and words separately. Learn functional practical sentences that will serve you as examples of the grammar structures (then you just need to change the words in these sentences).

8. Develop your listening skills - that is very important. For that there are Youtube channels and podcasts on Spotify (and in my materials the audio part also plays an important role). You can listen to Chinese radio stations just to get the feeling of the language.

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After 3-4 months you should feel pretty confident in normal conversations if you study regularly under competent guidance.

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R-evolutionary learning materials and resources: https://linktr.ee/chineseffect

MAGIC PLAYBOOK for beginners

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chineselangblr · 1 year

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Guys, I swear the source website of this picture had helped me out so much both when I started learning chinese and now!

Link:

I don't usually recommend pinterest to find useful websites but I did find this website there somehow lol. Istg half the links of pinterest are unavailable or something.

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difeisheng · 5 months

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hi ash, i think i may have asked this before, but from one asian diaspora to another, i was wondering how, if you're able to, you keep up with your chinese practice in a country that's dominated by english (and/or french canadian since ik you live in canada). bc i know a lot of suggestions are like turning your tech to the language you want to learn, put sticky notes on objects with the name in the language you want to learn, etc. but like. i feel like it doesn't matter how much i try and practice bc i'm not in a class, so i don't get it consistently enough, and the rest of my day is filled with english bc, well, that's my first language, and what is needed for my job and every day living. do you have any recs, strategies, or tips? i'm getting desperate; i used to be so much better than i am now. thanks!

hi! honestly, most of my chinese upkeep since i stopped taking mandarin classes (which tbh was relatively recent; this april, and then i'll be taking a cantonese class next term so i can learn to read it) has been a lot less I Need To Practice My Chinese through exercises or dedicated study time, and more just making sure i have frequent exposure to the language that i'm also engaged in. which is a long way to say that basically c-media is how i'm maintaining my proficiency.

i listen to music, i watch dramas and variety shows, look up other vids on bilibili that catch my interest, sometimes read articles, and (very slowly) read fanfic, with pleco open to note new words. just generally scrolling through chinese social media has helped too. having that environment i can immerse myself in helps me learn new vocabulary and practice using what i already know + listening skills, but it also doesn't feel like work or study, just dealing with things i like and am interested in. (this is important for me because i'm so exhausted when i get home every day lmao, if language upkeep outside of class felt like additional Student Time i might have tapped out on attempting it. this way turning on a c-drama at the end of the day just seems like relaxation first and then chinese exposure on top of it).

just by poking through c-drama or fandom things, i know my vocabulary has definitely expanded since i finished my last class, instead of shrunk. even though i watch c-dramas with english subtitles (or chinese and english depending on the platform), i've still picked up stuff from them, and when it comes to things like variety shows i don't rely on subtitles anymore/make myself not. you absorb a lot more of a language than you think just through exposure, imo. although as a caveat for reading specifically, picking up new characters, recognizing them, and reading has been one of the easier parts of learning chinese for me, when it's probably the inverse for a lot of people. i don't know how well just casually reading things will work as a method for others, ymmv.

the thing that i struggle with is getting opportunities to practice speaking, because it's english in my classes and usually with my friends, and either english or cantonese with my family (and i'm not living with them right now). however, i do have a lot of diaspora friends given that i'm in vancouver, and we occasionally dip into speaking mandarin or cantonese. this isn't perfect, but hopefully in future i'll be able to get more speaking experience somehow. what's also helped me with keeping up pronunciation despite these limits is learning to sing chinese songs. singing is one of my hobbies anyway, so i'll use pinyin or jyutping as a guide (getting better at sightreading characters for singing though!) and it's helped me work on certain sounds i had trouble with, and improved my accent. (watching c-dramas even if i don't speak as often has also aided on that front tbh; i listened to recordings of myself from last year and i sound less canto when i speak mandarin now compared to back then, or even earlier this year).

if you want a place to start that i personally think has helped me maintain chinese proficiency, i would choose a variety show you're interested in and try watching it without english subtitles, when you've got free time and want to do something fun. most will have chinese ones you can use to practice reading along with listening, and people usually speak at a conversational enough level that it shouldn't be too difficult to follow along (for ref, after a year and a half of heritage learner mandarin classes at uni i could watch 《我们的歌》/Our Song without english subtitles and understand most of it). variety shows are also really accessible lmao, so many have full seasons on youtube.

tl;dr it's been media exposure for me all the way down since i left classes, wherever i can get it.

not sure how actually helpful all this rambling might be, but this is what i do to keep up my chinese proficiency and keep learning in daily life nowadays! hopefully maybe you or someone else will be able to get something out of it :)

#sorry anon i hope this all connects i'm answering this late at night oop #you can ask me clarifying stuff if you want tho!#also for those of you who see this and are still building up a basic vocabulary and language foundation/grammar #please do not feel bad or kick yourself that you can't just throw yourself into the deep end on bilibili and learn chinese that way #all this was targeted to answer a specific question and assumes some kind of existing proficiency #i believe in y'all to get there one day tho!!! 努力学习加油吧 #languages #mandarin #chinese #ashton answers #anon

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chioneexo-blog · 5 months

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today's vocabulary : 洗衣粉 [xǐ yī fěn]

#language #studyblr #langblr #chinese langblr #chinese studyblr #mandarin #learn mandarin #中文 #汉语 #chinese vocabulary #study chinese #chinese characters #mandarin chinese #studying chinese #china

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libai-yyds · 11 days

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STRANGER THINGS IN CHINESE -VOCAB LIST

so... i was bored and wanted to find some vocab list about stranger things in chinese but i couldn't find any... so I finally decided to go look for it myself on diverse chinese speaking websites who were talking about the show. I also used pleco for some more generic words usefull to speak about the show.

I hope some other people will also fit on my venn diagram of hyperfixation and find this list useful ^^

怪奇物語（guài qí wù yǔ）stranger things

颠倒世界（diān dǎo shì jiè）the upside down

夺心魔（duó xīn mó）the mind flayer

魔狗 (mó gǒu) demodog

魔王 (mó wáng) demogorgon

魔蝙蝠 (mó biān fú) demobat

藤蔓 (téng wàn) the vines

怪兽 (guài shòu) the monster

维克那 (wéi kè nà) vecna

集体意识 (jí tǐ yì shí) the hive mind

火俱乐部 ( huǒ jù lè bù) the hellfire club

龙与地下城 (lóng yǔ dì xià chéng) dungeons and dragons

棒球棒 (bàng qiú bàng) baseball bat

圣诞灯 (shèng dàn dēng) christmas lights

纹身 (wén shēn) tattoo

失踪 (shī zōng) disappearance

杀 (shā) to kill

心灵感应 (xīn líng gǎn yīng) telekinesis

读心术 (dú xīn shù) telepathy

打电话 (dǎ diàn huà) to make a phone call

摩尔斯电码 (mó ěr sī diàn mǎ) morse code

对讲机 (duì jiǎng jī) walkie-talkie

俄国间谍 (é guó jiān dié) russian spy

实验品 (shí yàn pǐn) human experiment

星庭商场 (xīng tíng shāng cháng) starcourt mall

霍金斯实验室 ( huò jīn sī shí yàn shì) hawkins lab

门 (mén) the gate

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serremalevil · 10 months

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Words with 定 (HSK3-5)

决定 (juédìng) : to decide

规定 (guīdìng) : regulations, to stipulate

肯定 (kěndìng) : assuredly, to affirm

固定 (gùdìng) : fixed, to fasten

确定 (quèdìng) : to ensure, to confirm

稳定 (wěndìng) : stable, to pacify

制定 (zhìdìng) : to formulate

否定 (fo3udìng) : to negate, to reject

生活的态度决定了我们幸福感的高低。

既然明天晚上公司会关灯停电，那么我们肯定不用加班了。

成语有固定的结构。

#mandarin #chinese #langblr #vocabulary #vocabulary list #hsk 3 #hsk 4 #hsk 5

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mylilcomfycorner · 4 months

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The confusing draft next to the organized sheet that will stay on my binder

I had some time at work, since it's a slow season, and took the opportunity to study some mandarin.

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weishenyu · 4 months

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art merch (商品) vocab

part 3 to chinese art vocabulary series; some common merch items and materials! (part 1: common terms) (part 2: compliments)

帖子 [tiězi] - stickers

明星片 [míngxīng piàn] - postcards

钥匙圈 [yàoshi quān] - keychains

和纸胶带 [hé zhǐ jiāodài] - washi tape

磁铁 [cítiě] - magnet

徽章 [huīzhāng] - badge

吧唧 [bāji] - badge (japanese)

立牌 [lì pái] - standee

气囊支架 [qìnáng zhījià] - popsocket

手机壳 [shǒujī ké] - phone case

桌历 [zhuō lì] - desk calendar

pp夹 [jiā] - binder clip (pp = polypropylene)

易拉宝 [yì lā bǎo] - roll-up banner

娃娃 [wáwá] - doll

麻将 [májiàng] - mahjong = acrylic blocks

出物 [chū wù] - selling goods

收物 [shōu wù] - looking for goods

materials/special items

压克力 [yà kè lì] - acrylic

透明 [tòumíng]- transparent

炫彩雷射 [xuàn cǎi léi shè] - holographic (dt: shiny color lasers)

夜光 [yèguāng] - glow in the dark

客制化 [kè zhì huà] - customized

摇摇乐钥 [yáo yáo lè yào] - shaker charms

糖果包 [tángguǒ bāo] - candy bag (keychains)

棒棒糖 [bàng bàng táng] - lollipop (charms)

卡套 [kǎ tào] - card protector/covers

票根 [piàogēn] - ticket stubs

厂子 [chǎngzi] - manufacturer/factory

#chinese #mandarin #chinese language #studyblr #langblr #chinese langblr #vocabulary #tunastudies

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slavic-roots-western-mind · 4 months

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I Verbs in Chinese

A guide to some common I verbs in Chinese~

Ignore - 忽视 - hūshì Illuminate - 照亮- zhàoliàng Imagine - 想象 - xiǎngxiàng Imitate - 模仿 - mófǎng Improve - 改善 - gǎishàn Implement - 实施 - shíshī Include - 包括 - bāokuò Incorporate - 合并 - hébìng Increase - 增加 - zēngjiā Indulge - 沉迷 - chénmí Inform - 通知 - tōngzhī Innovate - 创新 - chuàngxīn Initiate - 启动 - qǐdòng Inquire - 询问 - xúnwèn Inspire - 启发 - qǐfā Instruct - 指示 - zhǐshì Interact - 互动 - hùdòng Interrupt - 打断 - dǎduàn Intervene - 介入- jièrù Introduce - 介绍 - jièshào Investigate - 调查 - diàochá Invite - 邀请 - yāoqǐng Involve - 参与 - cānyù Invent - 创造 - chuàngzào Invest - 投资 - tóuzī

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linghxr · 1 year

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New favorite word alert: 目送

Obviously this concept can be expressed in English, but I find it so cool that Chinese has a dedicated word for it. Now I will feel less awkward as I stare at my guests’ backs as they depart. It’s an integral part of being a host imo.

#pleco #this app is called pleco fyi (some ppl have asked)#chinese #chinese language #mandarin #mandarin chinese #language learning #langblr #learn chinese #learn mandarin #studyblr #chinese vocabulary

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chineseffect · 5 months

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