Very often in Chinese, you will come across words that share the same pronunciation, but are written using different characters – the so-calles Chinese homophones. In this article, we are going to take a look at 4 pairs of homonyms, which are frequently used in...
Sometimes, you can create two different words by putting two of the same Chinese characters into a different order. In this article, we are going to take a look at 5 examples of reversible Chinese words. Same Characters, Different Meaning It’s believed that a...
A modal or exclamative particle is an important grammatical concept in Chinese. Adding different exclamative particles at the end of your sentences can help you make your speech more vivid – and consequently, make conversations more effective. Using appropriate...
If you had a chance to talk to many Chinese locals, you might have noticed that people from different regions speak Chinese with different accents. Mandarin Chinese in the South and North can be slightly different sometimes. On one hand, it’s a relief –...
Even if you started to learn Chinese yesterday, you must have already picked up the famous Chinese greeting which means “hello”: 你好 nǐ hǎo. Well, if we take a look at these two characters separately, it turns out that 你 nǐ means “you”, and 好 hǎo means “good”. As the...
