Chinese Language Learning Program Lesson 83–What are the difference of “de 的, de 得and

Chinese Language Learning Program

Lesson 83 –Punctuation marks in Chinese

Hello, everyone. Welcome back. This is Baixue’s Chinese Language Learning Program. Last time we talked about what the difference of“de 的, de 得and di 地” are in Chinese. Today, we will talk about all kinds of punctuation marks used in Chinese.

biāo diǎn fú hào

  标    点    符  号 (Punctuation mark)

dòu hào                           jù hào

 逗    号(Comma “,”)       句  号 (Period “。”)

dān yǐn hào                                  

 单   引   号 (single quotation marks)

shuāng yǐn hào

双       引   号(double quotation marks)

xīng hào                     lián zì fú

  星   号 (Asterisk)      连  字 符(Hyphen)

wèn hào                            gǎn tàn hào

  问   号(Question mark)    感   叹   号 (Exclamation mark)

shěng lüè hào                     mào hào

省    略   号(Ellipsis)          冒    号 (Colon)

yuán kuō hào                         fēn hào

   圆    括   号(Parentheses)    分   号(Semicolon)

fāng kuō hào                                    jiān kuō hào

  方    括    号 (square brackets)     尖    括    号 (Angle brackets)

dà kuō hào

大   括   号 (curly brackets or braces)

fǎ wén yǐn hào; shū míng hào

法  文   引   号；  书     名     号 (French quotes)

pò zhé hào                xià huá xiàn

破   折   号(Dash)       下   划    线 (underscore)

jiàn tóu                     xié xiàn

 箭   头(arrow)           斜   线 (slash)

shù xiàn                        fǎn xié xiàn

  竖   线 (vertical bar)   反   斜   线 (backslash)

dùn hào                

  顿   号(comma; caesura sign-- only used in Chinese)

See more information about Chinese punctuations at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_punctuation

Today’s idiom is:

zuǒ yòu féng yuán

 左    右    逢     源

(be able to achieve success one way or another; win [gain] advantage from [of] both sides)

Ok, that is all for today.

xiè  xiè!

 谢   谢 ! (Thanks!)

xià  cì  jiàn 

 下  次  见!  (See you next time!)