Approximate Population of China
What is over 1 billion?
Written language was unified by who?
fire + mountain =
What is volcano?
Number of tones in Chinese
What is 4?
Capital of China
What is Beijing?
True or False: People speaking different dialects can still understand each other through written language (characters).
What is true?
True or False: Each Chinese character is pronounced as two syllables.
What is false?
True or False: Pinyin is English.
What is false?
Literal meaning of Zhong guo (中国)
What is central kingdom?
Year the pinyin system was introduced
What is 1958?
The oldest living language
What is Chinese?
The 3 parts of a pinyin syllable
What are initials, finals, and tone marks?
Specific location of China
What is the eastern part of Asia?
Regional differences in pronunciation, words, and grammar
What are dialects?
The objects the earliest writings were inscribed on.
What are oracle bones and turtle shells?
The international system used to express the sound of the Chinese language.
What is Pinyin?
The four largest ethnic groups in China
What are the Han, Mongolians, Tibetans, and Zhuang?
Mandarin is called what in Chinese
What is Pu tong hua.
Write the character 山 using the correct stroke order.
Middle first, top left straight down and then to the right, right side top to bottom.
True or False: Changing the tone mark will change the meaning of a sound.
What is true?