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Chinese Vocabulary
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年夜饭 nee-en-yeh-fan
New Year's Eve dinner
noun 归心似箭 gway-shin-sir-jyen
heart is speeding home like an arrow; eager to return home
idiom 很少 hun shao
seldom/rarely
adverb 看书 kahn-shoo (kahn like 'can' without 'c', shoo like 'shoe')
to read (books), to study
verb 开幕式 kai-moo-shrr
opening ceremony
noun 立春 lee-chwoon
Start of Spring (1st of 24 Solar Terms)
noun 春饼 choon-bing (choon like 'ch' in church, 'oo' in moon; bing like 'bing' in 'bingo')
Spring Pancakes
noun 冬奥会 dong-ow-hway
Winter Olympics
noun 百闻不如一见 bai-wun boo-roo ee-jyen
seeing is believing (lit. hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once)
idiom 关丹 Gwan-dan
Kuantan
noun 机械 jee-shyeh
mechanical
adjective 早晚 zao-wan
morning and evening
noun 选手 shwan show
athlete, contestant, player
noun 拼搏 pin baw
to strive, to fight, to struggle; struggle, endeavor
verb 力量 lee liang
power, strength, force
noun 微信 way sheen
WeChat
noun 支付 zhee-foo
to pay (money); payment
verb 马来西亚人 Mah-lye-she-yah ren
Malaysian person
noun 彭亨 Pung-hung
Pahang
noun 工程 gong-chung
engineering
noun 菜市场 tsigh shirr chahng
vegetable market; wet market
noun 猪肉 joo roh
pork
noun 不少 boo shao
quite a bit; a lot; many
adverbial phrase 情人节 ching-ren-jyeh
Valentine's Day
noun 顿 doon
measure word for meals / a period of action
measure word 大餐 dah-tsan
big meal / feast
noun 失败 shur-bye
failure; to fail
noun; verb 母 moo
mother; female
noun 下次 shyah tsuh
next time
adverbial phrase 阳光 yahng-gwahng
sunshine
noun 就是 jyo-shuh
exactly is; just is; indeed is
adverb + verb (fixed 以此 yee-tsuh
to use this; taking this as
preposition + pronou 动力 dong-lee
motivation; driving force; power
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