Preliminary1 Flashcards
(111 cards)
1
Q
Formation of initials, finals and tones
A
Syllables
2
Q
Initials/Consonants
A
21
3
Q
Final/Vowels
A
16
4
Q
Tones
A
4
5
Q
21
A
b p m f d t n l g k h j q x zh ch sh r z c S
6
Q
16
A
a o e ie ai ei ao ou an en ang eng er i u ü
7
Q
Tones
A
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Neutral
8
Q
-
A
1st
9
Q
/
A
2nd
10
Q
v
A
3rd
11
Q
\
A
4th
12
Q
Highest and longest
A
1st tone
13
Q
Lowest
A
3rd
14
Q
Mmmmm….
A
1st
15
Q
What?
A
2nd
16
Q
Uhhhhh…
A
3rd
17
Q
No!
A
4th
18
Q
Happy Birthday
A
Zhu ni SHENG RI kuai le
19
Q
Merry Christmas
A
Zhu ni SHENG DAN kuai le
20
Q
Happy new year
A
Zhu ni XIN NIAN kuai le
21
Q
Congratulations
A
Gong xi
22
Q
Have a prosperous new year!
A
Gong xi fa cai
23
Q
Congrats on your graduation
A
Gong xi ni bi ye
24
Q
Congrats on your engagement
A
Gong xi ni men ding hun
25
I (ako)
Wo
26
You (Ikaw)
Ni
27
He/She/It (siya)
Ta
28
We (kami)
woMEN
29
You (plural) (kayo)
niMEN
30
They (sila)
taMEN
31
Mine
woDE
32
Yours
niDE
33
His or hers
taDE
34
Theirs
taMenDe
35
Ours
WoMenDe
36
Yours (plural)
NiMenDe
37
Evolution of Chinese Script
Primitive stage
Archaic Stage
Neo-archaic Stage
Contemporary stage
38
Pictograph
Primitive stage
39
Ideograph
Archaic stage
40
Determinative phonetic character
Neo-archaic stage
41
Kai shu (standard script)
Contemporary stage
42
1950s PRC Simplified
2000 odd Chinese characters
43
Female
-
44
Child
-
45
Written character
-
46
House
-
47
Introducing self
```
Nin gui xing
wo xing
ni jiao shemme ming zi
wo jiao ___ wo shi xue suing
ren shi ni hen gao xing
Xie xie
```
48
Surname
Gui xing
49
You call what name
Ni jiao shemme ming zi
50
Student
Xue shung
51
Glad to meet you
Ren shi ni hen gao xing
52
Couple
Fu fu
53
Map
Di tu
54
Service
Fu wu
55
Auntie
A yi
56
Hair
Tou fa
57
Grandma
Nai nai
58
Clothes
Yi fu
59
Younger sister
Mei mei
60
Chinese characters
Left to right
Top to bottom
Partial enclosure
All around enclosure
61
B
P
62
D
T
63
G
K
64
F
H
65
An
Ang
66
En
Eng
67
U
U
68
In
Ing
69
In
In
70
Ian
Iang
71
Ian
Uan
72
Ie
Ue
73
J
Zh
74
Q
Ch
75
X
Sh
76
R
L
77
Er
R
78
Zh
Ch
| Sh
79
C
Ch
80
S
Sh
81
Z
Zh
82
Congratulations on your marriage?
Gong xi ni men Jie hun
83
I'm also fine
Wo ye hen hao
84
To learn how to read or to speak Mandarin, it is important to be familiar with its __
pronunciation
85
Some words or syllables have no tones as an exception; they are pronounced very lightly
Neutral tones
86
Flat high pitch
1st
87
Quick-rising pitch, from middle to high pitch
2nd
88
Dipping then rising pitch, from middle-low to middle-high pitch
3rd
89
Falling pitch, from high to low pitch
4th
90
In the late ___, a system using the Latin alphabet called __ was developed in China
1950s
| Pinyin
91
It was a system that alphabetized the writing of Chinese characters by representing the spoken sounds of these characters
Pinyin
92
It was used to spell Chinese words in Western language newspapers and magazines or in Chinese language textbooks for foreigners
Pinyin
93
It stands for Chinese sounds which are quite different from English Sounds
Pinyin letters
94
It usually consists of a consonant followed by a vowel
Chinese graphs
95
A minister
Cang ji
96
Evolved from the simple pictures of every day life
Pictographs
97
Each character has only one syllable and conveys a complete idea
Pictographs
98
Earliest stage at which pictographs originated form sheet pictures of objects
Primitive stage
99
Stage which covers of periods of emergence to the completion of indirect symbols
Archaic stage
100
Period where it it finally completed its formal evolution
Neo-archaic
101
Stage of stability, which is still the normal script from and the basis of printing form used today
Contemporary stage
102
Basic strokes
24
103
Arrangement of words in a sentence thus become an important means in expressing various relations in grammar
Word order
104
It lacks inflectional endings used by other languages to express tenses, genre, number and case
Chinese language
105
Population
1.3 Bullion
106
Class is over
Xia ke
107
Character writing method which refers to the form and shape of things
Pictographs
108
Who invented the Chinese script
Emperor Huang Di
109
Stage of Chinese script wherein the structural evolution has reached the stage of perfection
Neo-archaic
110
Aspirated
P
111
Non-aspirated
G
