Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar

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22 names, kinship terms, titles, and terms of address 22.1 Names: 姓名 xìngmíng The order of a Chinese name is: family name + give ...

NameS, kiNShiP termS, titleS, aNd termS oF addreSS 22.2 characteristic. Thus, brothers might be named 亦豪 Yì Háo (talent) and 亦强/ ...

titles 22.3 22.2.2 kinship terms for extended family Paternal Maternal 祖父 zǔfù (fml) grandfather 外公 wàigōng (fml) grandfather 爷爷 ...

NameS, kiNShiP termS, titleS, aNd termS oF addreSS 22.3 小姐 王小姐 xiǎojie Wáng xiǎojie 女士 王女士 nǚshì Wáng nǚshì Miss Miss Wang Note ...

addressing others 22.4 22.4 addressing others 22.4.1 addressing friends Close friends may address each other using family name a ...

NameS, kiNShiP termS, titleS, aNd termS oF addreSS 22.5 22.4.4 Using titles as terms of address Titles are commonly used as term ...

addressing new acquaintances and negotiating terms of address 22.5 The neutral and most common way to respond to this question i ...

Names, kiNship terms, titles, aNd terms of address 22.6 22.6 Name cards and business cards Name cards and business cards are wid ...

addressing letters and envelopes 22.7 In mainland China, cards written in Chinese are usually printed horizontally. In Taiwan, c ...

NameS, kiNShiP termS, titleS, aNd termS oF addreSS 22.7 22.7.2 the format of a horizontal envelope (commonly used in mainland Ch ...

Addressing letters and envelopes 22.7 22.7.3 The format of a vertical envelope (commonly used in Taiwan) In vertical format, add ...

NameS, kiNShiP termS, titleS, aNd termS oF addreSS 22.7 The terms used to refer to the units in street addresses differ somewhat ...

23 introductions 23.1 The general format of introductions Formal introductions use the polite classifier for people, 位 wèi. 这位是刘 ...

iNtrodUCtioNS 23.2 23.2 Sample introductions The following conversations illustrate informal and formal introductions. It is app ...

Common occupations and fields of study 23.3 23.3 Common occupations and fields of study Common professions 科学家/科學家 作者 kēxuéjiā z ...

iNtrodUCtioNS 23.3 历史/歷史 数学/數學 lìshǐ shùxué history math 医学/醫學 音乐学/音樂學 yīxué yīnyuè xué medicine music 哲学/哲學 物理学/物理學 zhé xué wùl ...

24 Greetings and goodbyes This chapter contains the most common expressions used by Mandarin Chinese speakers when greeting othe ...

GreetiNGS aNd GoodByeS 24.1 24.1.2 Greetings with reference to time of day The most common morning greeting is: 早。 Zǎo. Good mor ...

Saying goodbye in conversations 24.2 A variation of this kind of greeting is to ask about present activity. 你上哪儿去？ 你到哪儿去？ 你上哪兒去？ ...