Chapter 3

Question 1

xǐ

Answer 1

喜 to be fond of / to like / to enjoy / to be happy / to feel pleased / happiness / delight / glad

Question 2

huān

Answer 2

欢 joyous / happy / pleased

Question 3

lán

Answer 3

蓝 blue / indigo plant

Question 4

hóng

Answer 4

红 red / popular / revolutionary / bonus

Question 5

lǐ

Answer 5

李 plum

Question 6

jiě

Answer 6

姐 older sister

Question 7

jīn

Answer 7

今 today / modern / present / current / this / now

Question 8

xiǎng

Answer 8

想 to think / to believe / to suppose / to wish / to want / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)

Question 9

sòng

Answer 9

送 to deliver / to carry / to give (as a present) / to present (with) / to see off / to send

Question 10

jiàn

Answer 10

件 item / component / classifier for events, things, clothes etc

Question 11

lǐ

Answer 11

礼 gift / rite / ceremony / CL: 份 / propriety / etiquette / courtesy

Question 12

wù

Answer 12

物 thing / object / matter / abbr. for physics 物理

Question 13

qǐ

Answer 13

起 to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / (before place or time) starting from / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

Question 14

qù

Answer 14

去 to go / to go to (a place) / to cause to go or send (sb) / to remove / to get rid of / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / to be apart from in space or time / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) / (of a time or an event etc) just passed or elapsed

Question 15

shāng

Answer 15

商 commerce / to consult / quotient / 2nd note in pentatonic scale

Question 16

diàn

Answer 16

店 inn / shop / store / CL: 家

Question 17

mǎi

Answer 17

买 to buy / to purchase

Question 18

zhī

Answer 18

知 to know / to be aware

Question 19

dào

Answer 19

道 direction / way / road / path / CL: 條｜条, 股 / principle / truth / morality / reason / skill / method / Dao (of Daoism) / to say / to speak / to talk / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / province (of Korea or Japan)

Question 20

ài

Answer 20

爱 to love / affection / to be fond of / to like

Question 21

tīng

Answer 21

听 to listen / to hear / to obey / a can (loanword from English “tin”) / classifier for canned beverages

Question 22

yīn - yuè

Answer 22

音 -乐 music

Question 23

lè

Answer 23

乐 happy / cheerful / to laugh

Question 24

shū

Answer 24

书 book / letter / document / CL: 本, 冊｜册, 部 / to write

Question 25

chàng

Answer 25

唱 to sing / to call loudly / to chant

Question 26

piàn

Answer 26

片 thin piece / flake / a slice / film / TV play / to slice / to carve thin / partial / incomplete / one-sided / classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water / classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc / used with numeral 一: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc

Question 27

gěi

Answer 27

给 to / for / for the benefit of / to give / to allow / to do sth (for sb) / (passive particle)

Question 28

bāo

Answer 28

包 to cover / to wrap / to hold / to include / to take charge of / to contract (to or for) / package / wrapper / container / bag / to hold or embrace / bundle / packet

Question 29

ba

Answer 29

吧 (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise) / …right? / …OK? / …I presume.

Question 30

lǐ

Answer 30

里 lining / interior / inside / internal

Question 31

duō

Answer 31

多 many / much / often / a lot of / numerous / more / in excess

Question 32

lǜ

Answer 32

绿 green

Question 33

huáng

Answer 33

黄 yellow / pornographic / to fall through

Question 34

wèn

Answer 34

问 to ask

Question 35

gèng

Answer 35

更 more / even more / further / still / still more