Chinese as a Language
The official standard language of China and Taiwan is________.
Mandarin Chinese.
In mainland China, people use what format of written Chinese?
Simplified
Name the three parts of a pinyin syllable.
What is "Hello/How are You" in Chinese?
Standard Chinese is based on the dialect of _____.
Beijing
Chinese characters are adapted as a key component of Japanese writing system known as _____.
Kanji
Most of the Chinese characters are made up of two or more components. Name four major structures of Chinese characters.
Top to bottom, left to right, semi-enclosed, enclosed.
What do you say when you apologize to people?
Mandarin Chinese is one of the official language in Singapore. True or false?
True
The earliest known form of Chinese writing in the late 2nd millennium BCE is pictographic. The "words" are written on _____.
Animal bones
Name the six basic strokes
dian, heng, shu, pie, na, ti
When you say 不客气, what is the tone of 不?
Second tone
Standard Chinese is also called ____.
Pu Tong Hua
The standard national dictionary developed during the 18th and 19th centuries is ______.
Kangxi Dictionary
The first stroke of the word 还 is ___.
heng
Write xiè xiè nǐ/thank you in Chinese.
What are the six official languages of United Nations?
English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Arabic
Chinese characters have evolved over several thousands of years. The main scripts are: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Bronze Inscriptions, Small Seal Characters, Official Script, and Regular Script. Which script symbolizes a turning point in the evolution history of Chinese characters, after which Chinese characters transitioned into a modern stage of development?
Official Script
What is the Chinese character with a high variety of different strokes and is often used to show some of the strokes?
永yong3. It means "forever" or "permanence".
Name seven days of the week in Chinese.
星期一，星期二，星期三，星期四，星期五，星期六，星期天