chickenfriednice

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From :   Alexis Jackson

Date : 2009-01-30 / 12:39AM

Animals? What do the chinese name them? And how do you use abbriviation?

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benny

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-01-30 / 11:16AM

Hi Alexis, there are too many animals, which animal are you talking about?

As for the abbriviation, we usually combine 2 characters together from each phrase. It widely used for the technical terms

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intheplacetobe

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 Jesse C. yahoo.co.jp 
2009-02-11 / 02:05PM

animal is 动物 dong wu

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 Roland Parijs yahoo.com 
2009-02-12 / 11:13PM

Hello Alexis,

I have collecte some animals for you:

gǒu 狗 dog

māo 猫 cat

wūyā 乌鸦 raven, crow

jī 鸡 chicken (a birth which you can pick up by hand, because it cannot fly)

mǎ 马horse

lóng 龙 dragon

shǔbiāo 鼠标

shīzi 狮子 lion

lǎohǔ 老虎 tiger

hóuzi 猴子 monkey

yú 鱼 fish

马上 ma3shang4 horse above means inmidiately in Chinese, 我马上来 wo mashang lai means I caom inmideately (I jump on my horse and come … Chinese is a beatifuul and somtimes funny..)

Roland

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