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Thread: Chinese Learning---- The usage of zi
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[quote=ADAZHANG0628,361415]Lots of students asked some nouns themselves can express meanings such as zhuō(table),beī(cup), and kuài(chopsticks) but why Chinese people get use to put a zi behind those words, become zhuō zi, beī zi, kuài zi? From grammar, zi usually adds behind a noun, verb, adjective to assistant to form a noun or noun phrase. And zi is a neutral tone in this situation. For example, qízi(flag, noun+ zi→noun), pàngzi(fat person, adjective+ zi→noun) Form customs, Chinese people prefer bisyllable(two characters phrase) a little ---juts a little bit, not absolute Most single characters which referring utensil can put zi behind it, except wǎn(bowl),bāo(bag, bāo zi become another phrase) and so on P.S. My English is not very good, so if anyone can’t understand or want further discussion pls give me E-mail and it just my teaching thinking, welcome to criticize and exchange [/quote]
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