Saturday, May 31, 2008



Pronounced as shi.

Means is/was

Friday, May 30, 2008



Pronounced as rern or replace l to r in learn, as in rearn.

Means Human/People

Thursday, May 29, 2008



Pronouced as naan.

Means male/man.



Prounoced as nu as in nude but without the de.

Means female/woman.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008



Pronounced as how

Means good. Or much/very in some cases.

P/S: I'll go thru these instances later.

Monday, May 26, 2008



Pronounced as knee, nee

Means you. Normally this word is used in most conversations between 2 people.


Sunday, May 25, 2008

他,她,它

他,她,它

Pronounced as ta or tar
Means him or her or it. How do you differentiate the above characters? Its very simple.


- used to refer to a male.
- used to refer to a female.
- used to refer to an item or animal.



pronounced as war, wor.

It means me or I in Chinese.

Learn Chinese Word A Day

This blog is created to help those who would like to learn Chinese at their own pace. This website will focus on the daily words used by Chinese. Every week, there will be a recap of words learn in the past 7 days. Every word pronunciation will be linked closely to English words, thus making learning easier, but at times, you might need to pronounced them using romanised spelling. But you will not have to go through the pain of learning all the Romanised pronouciation of each word.

So Happy Learning.

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