Vocabulary of Unit 4

Learning Chinese: vocabulary Unit 4

To practice memorizing the vocabulary in writing, make a list of the vocabulary in Chinese characters only, then try to recall the pinyin and the English. Repeat until you make no mistakes. Then do the same exercise, but in reverse, that is, by writing the list in English and recalling the characters and the pinyin.

Nouns

大学 dàxué: university

大学生 dàxuéshēng: student

小学 xiǎoxué: primary school

小学生 xiǎoxuéshēng: pupil, primary school student

中学 zhōngxué: secondary school

中学生 zhōngxuéshēng: secondary school student

雪 xuě: snow

Numerals

零 líng: zero

一 yī: one

二 èr: two

三 sān: three

四 sì: four

五 wǔ: five

六 liù: six

七 qī: seven

八 bā: eight

九 jiǔ: nine

十 shí: ten

Adjectival verbs

大 dà: to be big / to be old

Interrogatives / Particles

多 duō: how (before an adj. verb) / to be numerous

几 jǐ: how many (estimated answer < 10)

岁 suì: year (of age)

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