Lesson 42 - Pinyin

Question 1

What’s the pinyin?

样

Answer 1

yàng foreign; manner; pattern; way; type; kind

Question 2

What’s the pinyin?

农村

Answer 2

nóngcūn rural area; countryside

Question 3

What’s the pinyin?

年夜饭

Answer 3

niányèfàn family reunion dinner on the Spring Festival’s Eve (Chinese New Year’s eve)

Question 4

What’s the pinyin?

年夜

Answer 4

niányè the Spring Festival’s Eve; the Lunar New Year’s Eve

Question 5

What’s the pinyin?

健康

Answer 5

jiànkāng healthy; health

Question 6

What’s the pinyin?

发财

Answer 6

fā cái to get rich; to make a fortune

Question 7

What’s the pinyin?

发

Answer 7

fā fà to make a fortune; to send out; to issue; to show (one’s feelings); hair

Question 8

What’s the pinyin?

财

Answer 8

cái wealth; money; property

Question 9

What’s the pinyin?

万事如意

Answer 9

wànshì rúyì to realize all one’s wishes; to wish sb all the best

Question 10

What’s the pinyin?

反而

Answer 10

fǎn’ér on the contrary; instead

Question 11

What’s the pinyin?

尝

Answer 11

cháng to taste; to try the flavor; (past tense marker)

Question 12

What’s the pinyin?

红烧鱼

Answer 12

hóngshāoyú fish braised in brown sauce

Question 13

What’s the pinyin?

红烧

Answer 13

hóngshāo to braise in soy sauce

Question 14

What’s the pinyin?

鱼

Answer 14

yú fish (Kangxi radical 195)

Question 15

What’s the pinyin?

肉

Answer 15

ròu meat; pork; flesh (Kangxi radical 130)

Question 16

What’s the pinyin?

难道

Answer 16

nándào used in a rhetorical question; could it be that?; don’t tell me that

Question 17

What’s the pinyin?

发音

Answer 17

fāyīn pronunciation; to pronounce; to emit sound

Question 18

What’s the pinyin?

结余

Answer 18

jiéyú to remain; (cash) surplus; balance

Question 19

What’s the pinyin?

余

Answer 19

yú to remain; to leave; surname Yu

Question 20

What’s the pinyin?

手机

Answer 20

shǒujī mobile (cell)phone

Question 21

What’s the pinyin?

饺子

Answer 21

jiǎozi Chinese dumpling

Question 22

What’s the pinyin?

除夕

Answer 22

chúxī the Spring Festival’s Eve; the Lunar New Year’s Eve

Question 23

What’s the pinyin?

守岁

Answer 23

shǒusuì to stay up all night on the Spring Festival’s Eve (New Year’s Eve)

Question 24

What’s the pinyin?

随便

Answer 24

suíbiàn any; no matter (what; when; how; etc); as one pleases; informal; random; casual

Question 25

# What's the pinyin? 放鞭炮

Answer 25

fàngbiānpào to set off firecrackers

Question 26

# What's the pinyin? 放

Answer 26

fàng to set or let off; to put; to place; to release; to free

Question 27

# What's the pinyin? 鞭炮

Answer 27

biānpào firecrackers; a long string of small firecrackers

Question 28

# What's the pinyin? 禁止

Answer 28

jìnzhǐ to prohibit; to ban

Question 29

# What's the pinyin? 怪不得

Answer 29

guàibude no wonder; so that's why

Question 30

# What's the pinyin? 外地

Answer 30

wàidì parts of the country other than where one is; other places; foreign lands

Question 31

# What's the pinyin? 春联

Answer 31

chūnlián Spring Festival couplets

Question 32

# What's the pinyin? 窗花

Answer 32

chuānghuā paper-cut for window decoration

Question 33

# What's the pinyin? 尤其

Answer 33

yóuqí especially; particularly

Question 34

# What's the pinyin? 远亲不如近邻

Answer 34

yuǎnqīn bùrú jìnlín a close neighbor means more than a distant relative

Question 35

# What's the pinyin? 四合院

Answer 35

sìhéyuàn quadruple; traditional residential with houses built around a square countryyard; Chinese compound with rooms around a courtyard

Question 36

# What's the pinyin? 院子

Answer 36

yuànzi courtyard

Question 37

# What's the pinyin? 装

Answer 37

zhuāng to load; to pack; to install; to dress up; to pretend; clothing

Question 38

# What's the pinyin? 卡车

Answer 38

kǎchē lorry; truck

Question 39

# What's the pinyin? 木头

Answer 39

mùtou wood; log; timber

Question 40

# What's the pinyin? 水泥

Answer 40

shuǐní cement

Question 41

# What's the pinyin? 装修

Answer 41

zhuāngxiū to fit up (a house; etc); to renovate

Question 42

# What's the pinyin? 邻居

Answer 42

línjū neighbor

Question 43

# What's the pinyin? 卸

Answer 43

xiè to unload; to discharge; to remove

Question 44

# What's the pinyin? 干活儿

Answer 44

gànhuór to work; to work on a job

Question 45

# What's the pinyin? 趟

Answer 45

tàng tāng (mw for trips times); to wade

Question 46

# What's the pinyin? 笑话

Answer 46

xiàohua to laugh at sb; joke

Question 47

# What's the pinyin? 犹豫

Answer 47

yóuyù hesitant; hesitate; undecided

Question 48

# What's the pinyin? 推

Answer 48

tuī to push; to scrape; to decline; to postpone; to elect

Question 49

# What's the pinyin? 小车

Answer 49

xiǎochē wheelbarrow; sedan

Question 50

# What's the pinyin? 拍

Answer 50

pāi to pat; to clap; to shoot (pictures; a film); to send (a telegram)

Question 51

# What's the pinyin? 连忙

Answer 51

liánmáng promptly; at once

Question 52

# What's the pinyin? 声

Answer 52

shēng (mw for sound); sound; voice