Chinese Mandarin :
Registered on : 2009-01-22
Language : None
Posts : 1
Responses : 0
Comments : 0
From :
Calvin Clarke
Date : 2009-01-22 / 11:52AM
Hello, I have a very good question that i have never EVER seen the answer to. This has to do with shopping for items like meat by the pound. When i am in the Chinese market, how say “pound of”. For Example: Wo yao 1 “pound of” ji rou “wings”.
Views (855) Replies (2)
Latest Responses
Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2007-01-01 Language : English, Mandarin Chinese Posts : 0 Responses : 2359 Comments : 75 |
| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com
2009-01-22 / 07:09PM | | Hi Calüin, we do not use “Pound” here when you buy meat. We use “jīn” which is 500 gram.
You should say: wǒ yào mǎi 2 jìn jī ròu = I want to buy 1 kg Chicken.
Or you can use “gōng jīn = kg”
Benny
Learn Chinese, Learn Mandarin from AskBenny | |
|
Chinese Mandarin :Registered on : 2009-02-04 Language : None Posts : 2 Responses : 1 Comments : 0 |
| | Christy hotmail.com
2009-02-04 / 11:53AM | | Hi.Benny
What Calvin Clarke said is Wo yao 1 “pound of” ji rou “wings”,See?“wings”,How to say it?I know it must be different from jirou~~~~ | |
|
