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New Chinese Vocabulary Lesson 7

Hey, we are going to continue our vocabulary lessons with a few more interesting words and phrases.

If you are learning Chinese, you must understand what “dai” means. Have a look at the character, can you imagine a person standing straight, not saying anything and not doing anything? Yes, that’s what “dai” means, dumb, logi, and slow in reaction.

What if two dumb person come together? Is it dumb+dumb, dumbX2, or dumbXdumb?

It turns out to be “mei” in modern Chinese.

The word originally has the same meaning with “plum”. But now it’s being widely used by the younger generation, mostly on the Internet, with a meaning of “dumb beyond comprehension”, or something like that.

Ok, that’s it for today… Hey, hey, don’t you fall asleep in my class! You wanna be a “mei” person? :)

4 Comments

  • At 2008.11.19 15:55, k said:

    wow thanks, i really need to learn a bit of chinese and i do hope i can try this here in SG. (i wonder if this is the type of chinese language they use here coz i am not sure haha).

    k’s last blog post..unconventional bride

    • At 2008.11.20 05:08, mgco said:

      interesting..

      mgco’s last blog post..“Mud thrown is ground lost.”

      • At 2009.02.16 10:04, Devi Jones said:

        I’m new here landed up searching blogs on resources on Chinese Language. cool blog you have here, keep it up. and its nice to be here. i’ll be back some time later for more updates.Thanks for sharing with us….

        • At 2009.02.17 13:53, huibo said:

          Hi Devi, thanks, I will make more of these language posts. Have a good time here!

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