名字叫地方美吧國英過氣想去兩国英过气两.pdfVIP

Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K. Wheatley, MIT 3.1 First set 名字 叫 地方 美 吧 3+3 3+3 3+2 3+3 4+0 3+5 3+4 míng zì jiào dì fāng mĕi ba name-character be named; place region beautiful BA name be called; call [USA] consensus 國 英 過 氣 想 去 兩 3+8 4+5 3+9 4+6 4+9 2+3 2+6 国 英 过 气 两 3+5 3+5 3+3 4+0 1+6 guó yīng guò qì xiǎng qù liǎng country hero pass air; spirit think; go 2 [+M] [England; UK] ever feel like Notes a) 名 contains the elements 夕 ‘evening’ (originally a drawing of the setting moon?) and the ‘mouth radical’ ( 口); for mnemonic purposes, think ‘moon, low in the sky at evening, so you need to call out your name to identify yourself’. b) 字 zì ‘character’ contains 子 zĭ (‘child’) as phonetic; think ‘a pupil under a roof, studying characters’. (Míngzì means ‘the characters which form the name’.) Distinguish 字 from 子 zĭ and 了le. c) 叫 mouth plus ‘4’, so: ‘calling out ‘4’ on the golf course’. d) 地 is a third character to show 也 as right-side element; cf. 她 and 他. The presence of 也 in these characters seems to have resulte