grammar - How is 就 (jiù) used? - Chinese Language Stack Exchange
Pimsleur's Mandarin course teaches "I'm leaving very early tomorrow morning" as: 我明天早上很早就走 (wŏ míngtiān zăoshàng hĕn zăo jiù zŏu) It says that 就 (jiù) doesn't have a …
Is there a word for Chinese songs that rhyme like Jay Chou's 迷迭 …
Oct 4, 2020 · Every single line in Jay Chou's song "Rosemary" ends with the "ao" sound: ni de zui jiao wei wei shang qiao xing gan de wu ke jiu yao xiang xiang …
mandarin - Pinyin "jiu" / "you" final pronunciation difference ...
In Mandarin should there be any difference between the pronunciation of the pinyin final in "jiu" and the pronunciation of the pinyin whole word "you"?
verbs - Differences between 喜欢, 要, and 想? - Chinese Language …
Could someone explain to explain me the difference between the three verbs 喜欢 (xihuan), 要 (yao), and 想 (xiang)? 我喜欢喝一杯啤酒。 (wo xihuan he yi bei pi jiu) 我要喝一杯啤酒。 (wo …
grammar - Why 了 in 走+time+就到了？ - Chinese Language …
Jun 11, 2020 · I came across the following sentence: 她的家很近，走五分钟就到了。 Tā de jiā hěn jìn, zǒu wǔ fēnzhōnɡ jiù dào le. Her house is very close, only need to walk for five minutes …
Reading Years in Chinese - Chinese Language Stack Exchange
Jun 29, 2021 · We know that years like 2021 are read as "er ling er yi nian". But Google Translate reads 2000年 as :liang qian nian. Possibly because "er ling ling ling …
pronunciation - Why is 灸 pronounced jiu1? - Chinese Language …
Feb 19, 2021 · The pinyin of 灸 as in 针灸 (acupuncture) or 艾灸 (moxibustion) is clearly given as jiu3, as shown in, among others, MDGB and Zdic. The single character doesn't even have …
What is the meaning of 忽爾間 in the song "說散就散"?
Mar 2, 2018 · I have recently discovered this JC's song called Shuo San Jiu San. In the last sentence of the last paragraph of the song, which goes"因為成長 我們忽爾間說散就散", I …
translation - Rendering 招子庸‘s name into English? - Chinese …
Nov 6, 2024 · 招子庸 链接中提到： 1992年，学者Peter T. Morris亦再将招子庸的《粤讴》译为英文，收录97首粤讴，在香港大学出版社出版了《Cantonese Love Songs: An English …
Why is it written LIU in Pinyin, when there's clearly an O sound?
Jan 20, 2012 · Edit: some arbitrary decision seems to have been made by choosing you instead of yu, but with other initials, the choice was: liu, niu, jiu, etc. when the phoneme /ou/ in all …