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The Chinese conception of yellow (黃 huáng) is inclusive of many shades considered tan or brown in English, and its primary association is with the earth rather than the sun. It was formerly inclusive of many oranges, [6] [7] although speakers of modern Standard Mandarin increasingly map their use of huáng to shades corresponding to English ...
A word from the second family is used as an existential negator 'have not', as in Beijing méi 沒 and Shanghai m 2. [182] In Mandarin varieties this word is also used for 'not yet', whereas in Wu and other groups a different form is typically used. [183] In Southern varieties, negators tend to come from the second family.
a "stack" of (e.g. paper, or any other paper-like things) 袋: dài doi6: doi6 "bag" — sackfuls, pouchfuls, bagfuls, pocketfuls (flour 麵粉 / 面粉, French fries 薯條 / 薯条, cements 水泥, etc.) 啖: dàn daam6: daam6 (Cantonese only) "mouthful" — amount of food 啲 / 尐: di1: di1 (Cantonese only) "some", "a bit" — general ...
The Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL) is a standardized language proficiency test developed for non-native speakers of Chinese. It is the result of a joint project of the Mandarin Training Center, the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, and the Psychological Testing Center of National Taiwan Normal ...
Starting from 2016, the science examination is divided into two papers, paper 1 and paper 2. Each paper lasts for an hour. For paper 1, students are given 40 multiple choice questions with a weight of one mark each. For paper 2, students answer subjective questions. In the subjective paper, there are eight questions and each question has 3 to 5 ...
Chinese as a foreign or second language is when non-native speakers study Chinese varieties. The increased interest in China from those outside has led to a corresponding interest in the study of Standard Chinese (a type of Mandarin Chinese ) as a foreign language, the official language of mainland China , Taiwan and Singapore .
The following is a list of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language.While those countries or territories that designate any variety of Chinese as an official language, as the term "Chinese" is considered a group of related language varieties rather than a homogeneous language, of which many are not mutually intelligible, in the context of the spoken language such ...
Mandarin Daily News Building on Roosevelt Road in Taipei Mandarin Daily News script by Hu Shih. The Mandarin Daily News (Chinese: 國語日報; pinyin: Guóyǔ Rìbào; Wade–Giles: Kuo 2-yü 3 Jih 4-pao 4; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kok-gú-ji̍t-pò; Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Gwoyeu Ryhbaw; Zhuyin ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄩˇ ㄖˋ ㄅㄠˋ) is a traditional Chinese children's newspaper published daily in Taiwan.