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March 30th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

Mandarin Vocabulary - Polite Expressions

It has been way too long since I studied my Mandarin. It is time for me to get back into the game.

How do you do? = NÃ HÇŽo
Good Morning = NÃ ZÇŽo
Hi, Everyone = NÃmen HÇŽo
Good Morning = ZÇŽoshang HÇŽo
Good Evening = WÇŽnshang HÇŽo
Welcome = HuÄnyÃng, HuÄnyÃng
Come in, please = QÇng jÃ¬n
Please sit down = QÇng zuÃ²
Please have tea = QÇng hÄ“ chÃ¡
Have a smoke, please = QÇng xÄ« yÄn
Excuse me… - OR - May I ask…? = QÇng wÃ¨n
Thank you = XiÃ¨xie
Sorry - OR - Excuse me = DuÃ¬ bu qÇ
Not at all - OR - Never mind (polite response to Thank you.) = MÃ©i guÄnxi
Good-bye = ZÃ ijiÃ n

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Olive
2:51 pm on June 3rd, 2007 1
Some more mandarin vocabulary:
http://www.chinese-tools.com/chinese/vocabulary
tuna
4:51 am on September 7th, 2007 2
hmmm. interesting. but not very useful.

perhaps, since the phrases are given in english it would have made more sense to post the phonetic pronunciations in english as well.

i feel like i’ve just been given a menu i can read but nothing on it is available
The China Tattler
8:10 pm on September 13th, 2007 3
That has got to be one of the worst guides to Mandarin pronunciation I have ever encountered.Are you sure it’s not Cantonese?
John
8:19 pm on September 13th, 2007 4
True, it does look pretty screwed up. I had nice pretty accented characters that showed the tones there, but when I updated my blog recently, they all got screwed up. Any non-Romanized character went poof.

I really need to get off my lazy butt and fix it. Thanks for reminding me. Though if you had any courtesy, or knowledge of technical issues you might have done it in a more polite way.