Chinese Sayings for Practising Pinyin Pronunciations Volume III (T-Z) E-Book

Zhao Z.J.

• Herausgeber: China Publishing House Pte Ltd
• Kategorie: Fremdsprachen
• Serie: Guide to Learning Pinyin Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 27

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This is an epub sound book for learning Pinyin. This Volume and the companion volumes I and II are sequels to our guides to learning how to pronounce every Roman letter and special combination of Roman letters that are used to produce all the basic sounds of Pinyin. We select from Chinese literature some of the popular sayings used in Chinese society. In this volume, the first Roman characters of the sayings range from T to Z. For each Chinese character in the sayings, we provide the Pinyin, its standard pronunciation and meaning. A learner of the Chinese language can  listen to the sound clip accompanying the character to learn its standard pronunciation, and use these sayings to learn pinyin and its standard pronunciation besides learning about Chinese language and culture. 

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Copyright Page

This Volume and the companion volumes I and II are sequels to our guides to learning how to pronounce every Roman letter and special combination of Roman letters that are used to produce all the basic sounds of Pinyin.

We select from Chinese literature some of the popular sayings used in Chinese society. In this volume, the first Roman characters of the sayings range from T to Z.

For each Chinese character in the sayings, we provide the Pinyin, its standard pronunciation and meaning. A learner of the Chinese language can use these sayings to learn pinyin and its standard pronunciation besides learning about Chinese language and culture.

Introduction

This book contains a collection of popular sayings used in Chinese society and Chinese literature. Each of the Chinese character in the sayings is accompanied by its Pinyin, pronunciation and meaning.

For practising Pinyin, a learner can take any of the sayings, and go through each character in the saying. For each character, he can listen to the sound clip accompanying the character to learn its standard pronunciation. To remember the pronunciation, the learner has to repeat listening to the sound clip a number of times, and practise what you have heard.

How to use this ebook

Contents

Contents

Cover 1

Copyright Page 2

Introduction 3

How to use this ebook 4

1. Chinese Sayings beginning with T 6

2. Chinese Sayings beginning with W 11

3. Chinese Sayings beginning with X 18

4. Chinese Sayings beginning with Y 37

5. Chinese Sayings beginning with Z 67

tiān

biān

yuè

jìng

nèi

huā

天

边

月

，

镜

内

花

，

kàn

de

jiàn

zhāi

bú

xià

看

得

见

，

摘

不

下

。

1. Chinese Sayings beginning with T

1

Text Translation

You can see the moon on a side of the sky, and a flower in a mirror, but you cannot pick them down.

Equivalent Meaning

Moon in the sky, and flowers in the mirror, can be seen, but cannot be obtained. Visible but unavailable, beautiful but illusory, this all is just an illusion.

Character Pronunciation and Meaning

Pinyin

Character

Meaning

Pronunciation

tiān

天

sky

biān

边

side

yuè

月

moon

jìng

镜

mirror

nèi

内

in ; inside

huā

花

flower

kàn

看

look

de

得

<function word, used between a verb and its complement to express possibility>

jiàn

见

see

zhāi

摘

pick

bú

不

not

xià

下

down

2

tiān

xià

zhī

dà

wú

qí

bù

yǒu

天

下

之

大

，

无

奇

不

有

。

Text Translation

In the vast world, always there is something that will happen unexpectedly. (Nothing is too strange in the world.)

Character Pronunciation and Meaning

Pinyin

Character

Meaning

Pronunciation

tiān

天

}world

xià

下

zhī

之

<function word, used between an attribute and the word it modifies to indicate a descriptive phrase>

dà

大

vast

wú

无

no

qí

奇

unexpected

bù

不

not

yǒu

有

there is