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  1. 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 …

  2. 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 …

  3. 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 …

  4. 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 …

  5. 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 …

  6. mandarin - Pinyin "jiu" / "you" final pronunciation difference ...

    May 22, 2020 · 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"?

  7. 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 …

  8. tones - jiu3 pronounced as jiu4 ; linked speech feature or slip of …

    Oct 9, 2022 · Here is the intonation that is recorded in an instructional video for the clause 我已经很久都不过中秋节了 (wǒ yǐjīng hěn jiǔ dōu bú guò ...

  9. 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 …

  10. translation - Rendering 招子庸‘s name into English? - Chinese …

    Nov 6, 2024 · 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 translation of Jiu …