PDF《第五课》

哎ài;

嗯n~ng;

with exclamatory particles, 啊a;

吧ba;

or with words borrowed from other languages, 咖啡 kāfēi. Reading the news, Kūnmíng. What'

s the question? [JKW 1997]

3 c) Add a character (or two) to distinguish the following pairs: 1. 毛笔2. 周州3. 年午4. 生住5. 杯林6. 忘忙7. 小少8. 服报9. 洗先10. 文这11. 地她12. 汉难13. 有友14. 陈东15. 四西16. 走起17. 呢吃18. 字子19. 听近20. 省贵21. 用同22. 汽气23. 公么24. 典共25. 站点26. 几机27. 自白28. 见现29. 过还30. 对过d) Talking about characters Asking how to say it or how to write it: 水,火Dì-yī ge zì, zěnme shuō? How do you say the 1st character? '

Shuǐ'

. '

Shui'

. Dì-èr ge ne? And the 2nd ? Dì-èr ge shi '

huǒ'

. The 2nd is '

huo'

. 三块四毛五 Zěnme niàn? How'

s [it] read? Ng, '

sān kuài'

. Hm, '

san kuai'

. Hái yǒu ne? And what else? '

Sān kuài sì máo wǔ.'

'

San kuai si mao wu.'

小'

Dàxiǎo'

de '

xiǎo'

zěnme xiě? How do you write the '

xiao'

of '

daxiao'

?

4 Asking about number of strokes (bǐhuàr): 元'

Yuán'

zhèi ge zì yǒu jǐ ge How many strokes in the character '

yuan'

? bǐhuàr? Yǒu sì ge. There are 4. 我'

Wǒ'

ne? '

Wǒ'

yǒu jǐ ge bǐhuàr? And [in] '

wo'

? How many strokes in '

wo'

? '

Wǒ'

yǒu qī ge. '

Wo'

has 7. Asking about radicals (bù): 都'

Dōu'

de bùshǒu shì shénme? What'

s the radical of '

dou'

? '

Dōu'

shì yòu-ěrduō ~ yòu-ěrpáng. '

Dou'

is the '

right ear'

. 很'

H?n'

zhèige zì de bùshǒu shi What'

s the radical of the character '

hen'

? shénme? Shì shuānglìrén ~ shuāngrénpáng. It'

s the '

double man radical'

. 5.1 Set

1 因为(为) 楼钟岁喜欢 3+3 1+8 4+8 4+10 8+12 4+9 3+9 4+18 为楼钟岁欢1+3 4+9 5+4 3+3 4+2 yīn wèi [wéi] lóu zhōng suì xǐhuan reason for [be] building;

bell;

year;

pleasure-joy because floor clock years old to like 工作 所/所定功每位3+0 2+5 4+4 3+5 3+2 4+3 2+5 gōngzuò suǒ dìng gōng měi wèi work (place;

that which) (certain) (merit) each;

every pol-M

5 Notes a) The wèi of wèishénme is usually hand written as 为(why a three layered cake and candles?), which, for obscure reasons, is classified under the radical 火'

fire'

;

but it is printed 为, with radical 爪. Its simplified form, which takes the first two strokes of the traditional and then reduces the rest to two strokes, derives from calligraphic practices. Wèi with falling tone means '

for [the sake of]'

;

thus wèishénme '

for what'

. With rising tone, it means '

be;

do;

by'

. (The wei of yīnwèi derives from the rising toned word, but is now generally pronounced with falling tone.) Yīn contains 大dà '

big'

confined in a square (for good reason). b) 楼contains the phonetic element 娄lóu, also seen in 数, which has the unexpected pronunciation of shǔ ('

to count'

) or shù (cf. 数学). 娄itself resembles a tall building;

it obeys the rule of five if we can count 女as having two horizontals (for by the rules, 曰only counts as '

2'