Chinese Foreign Words

Foreign words in Chinese. I believe all languages uses foreign words when their own vocabulary is insufficient. For instance French. They have adopted a Danish combined expression meaning something like "mess in a kitchen", which is what cooking always results in. In this blog I will post the foreign words used in Mandarin Chinese. You are most welcome to add some, just make a comment to any post you like.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Model

English word : Model (a person)
Chinese pronunciation : mo2te4


Sunday, January 07, 2007

Marker

Yet another product from the west. A marker pen. Pen is pronounced bi3 in Chinese.

English word : Marker
Chinese pronunciation : ma3ke4bi3


Saturday, January 06, 2007

Ballet

English word : Ballet
Chinese pronunciation : Ba1lei3


Saturday, November 18, 2006

Cartoons

English word : Cartoon
Chinese pronunciation : Ka3tong1


Monday, August 14, 2006

Guitar

English word : Guitar
Chinese pronunciation : Ji2ta1


Friday, August 11, 2006

Ton

English word : Ton
Chinese pronunciation : Dun4


Thursday, August 10, 2006

Meter

English word : Meter
Chinese pronunciation : mi3


Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Learning Chinese Is Cool!

English word : Cool
Chinese pronunciation : ku4


Tuesday, August 08, 2006

AIDS was also imported

English word : AIDS
Chinese pronunciation : ai4zi1 (bing4)

bing4 is sickness, illness or disease.


Monday, August 07, 2006

Westerners scared the headache away

English word : Aspirin
Chinese pronunciation : a1si1pi3lin2


Friday, August 04, 2006

Pay the Fei4

English word : Fee
Chinese pronunciation : Fei4


Thursday, August 03, 2006

Coffee

The Chinese are much known for their fabulous green tea! When they learned about coffee, what did they call it? Ka1fei1

English word : Coffee
Chinese pronunciation : Ka1fei1

What would a café be? Or rather; a Coffee bar? Ka1fei1ba1


Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Hysterics

English word : Hysterics
Chinese pronunciation : xie1si1di3li3


Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Internet

English word : Internet
Chinese pronunciation : yin1te4wang3 (wang3 means net)


Monday, July 31, 2006

Chocolate!

English word : Chocolate
Chinese pronunciation : Qiao3ke4li4


Friday, July 28, 2006

Sofa

English word : Sofa
Chinese pronunciation : sha1fa1


Thursday, July 27, 2006

Microphone

English word : Microphone
Chinese pronunciation : Mai4ke4feng1


Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Salad

English word : Salat
Chinese pronunciation : sa1la1


Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Ice Cream

English word : Ice Cream
Chinese pronunciation : bing1(means ice) qi2lin2 (should sound like cream)


Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Ever tasted a Chinese pizza?

English word : Pizza
Chinese pronunciation : Bi3sa1


Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Do Chinese have humor?

For some reason there was a need to adopt a certain word when the lao3wai4 (old outsider or foreigner) came to China.

English word : Humor
Chinese pronunciation : you1mo4


Saturday, July 15, 2006

Where To Start Logically?

The first Chinese foreign word I would add to this blog, would be logic.

English word : Logic
Chinese pronunciation : luo2ji4


Friday, July 14, 2006

Opening Apology

Hello any reader I may have!

As an opening comment, I would have to say that I will not trouble myself writing the chinese characters for these Chinese foreign words. But I will of course add the correct pinyin - in its simplest form though. Which is with traditional letters and each syllable followed by a number indicating the tone.


 
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