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The following is a guest post by Jordyne Wu ( @jordyne ), famous author of the Blog on Shanghai and China on jordyne.com , and HubSpot business development executive.
My favorite Chinese character is 婚 (=hun1 = to marry/marriage). Like... Read More
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I recently returned to 久久台北 for Father's day [= 父亲节 = fu4 qin0 jie2 = "father relation holiday"]. I t was amazing. The best thing we had was the 小笼包 = xiao3 long2 bao1 = "small basket bag" = soup dumpling. These excellent bags of pork and soup... Read More
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I just sneezed, which reminded me that I've been meaning to write this post for a while. When someone sneezes, you can say 百岁, which sounds like bai3 sui4. The word 百 means "100", and 岁 means "years" or "years old". The phrase literally means "100... Read More
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In a recent post I discussed the phrase 我无所谓 , which means "I don't care". The word 无, pronounced wu2, means without. Thank you, Mandarin, for having such a useful word. You can use this word with the word for brain (脑 = nao3) to make 无脑 =... Read More
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There is an amazing restaurant in Boston called 久久台北 = jiu3 jiu3 tai2 bei3 = long [duration of time] + long [duration of time] + Taipei. Actually, 台 officially means "your" and 北 means "North", but 台北 = Taipei = the capital of Taiwan. This... Read More
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I am a fan of two ways of saying "I don't care" in Chinese. You can say 我无所谓 = wo3 wu2 suo3 wei4 = "I don't care" or "I am indifferent" or "whatev". The words are: 我 [wo3], which obviously means I. That one is easy. 无 [wu2], which means... Read More
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John Osborne is a brilliant guy for at least 2 reasons: (1) He is going to marry my sister this summer. (2) He just publicly launched a sweet virtual currency monetization software platform called AppDog . So, I figured I'd give AppDog a... Read More
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You are late. You are in a taxi, and you'd like to ask the driver to hurry it up. To say that, you say 快点 [=kuai4 dian3 = fast little = hurry it up]. If if you live in Beijing, you add an "rrrrrr" to this by adding a 儿, so it would be 快点儿. No the 儿... Read More
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I am periodically asked by friends what stuff I recommend they do in Beijing. In the interest of efficiency, I decided to write my top ten list of eleven things I would do if I were a tourist in Beijing who only had time for eleven things: 1. ... Read More
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I actually like you, Chinese-English dictionary. Really. I like how you are well-organized and you help me translate words I've forgotten. I especially like you in this online incarnation , by the way. One thing I really like about you is that... Read More
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