Lost and Found -- Chinese English Vocabulary -- Ting

(to show the continuity of things che1 deng3 zhe car is waiting -- same character pronounced zhao1, zhao2, zhuo2 with different meanings, usually in combination with other words)

Zhang Meng

Feng Xie

Li Si

走失

zou3shi1

went astray, to have gotten lost

足够

zu2gou4

just enough, ample, sufficient, enough; sufficiently, fully, amply

从来

cong2lai2

always, at all times

紧跟

jin3gen1

to stay close to, to heel

慢慢

man4man4

slow, sluggish, rude

新鲜

xin1xian1

fresh, new, novel, strange

购物

gou4wu4

shopping

可以

ke3yi3

to be able to, may; pretty good

(can be used in question answer -- Ke3yi3 ma? // Ke3 yi3. = Can I? // Sure.)

手推车

shou3tui1che1

cart, push cart, grocery cart, shopping cart

(wheeled push cart of any type -- common example is the metal basket you push in grocery stores -- informally shopping carts are called yi2 liang4 xiao3 che1)

推

tui1

to push, to shove

(don't use this in reference to closing drawers, pushing buttons, or telephones....ok if you want to push someone off a cliff, or use some force)

完

wan2

to complete, to finish; perfect, complete; finished, used up

玩具

wan2ju4

toy, plaything

包

bao1

packet, package, bag, sack

饼干

bing3gan1

biscuit (British), cracker

柜台

gui4tai2

counter

(as in top of cabinet or ticket counter)

胡萝卜

hu2luo2bo

carrot

拿

na2

to get, to take, to hold, to carry, to pick up, to catch, to arrest, to seize, to capture

碰头儿

peng4tou2r

to see each other, to meet

其它的；其他的

qi2ta1 de

others, the rest

(the choice of the pronoun depends on the context)

小车

xiao3che1

cart, shopping cart, grocery cart

(this is the oral form of grocery cart or shopping cart)

小甜饼

xiao3tian2bing3

样

yang4

kind, sort, type

(yang4 is used when items are in a group of dissimilar items -- see lei4 for discussion -- zhong3 is more commonly used to mean kind or type)

竹子

zhu2(zi)

bamboo

竹笋

zhu2sun3

bamboo shoots

(these are young tender shoots off the bamboo tree -- zhu2zi 竹子 )

花

hua1

to spend, to expend

(money, time)

几几排

ji3ji3pai2

aisle, shopping aisle

(ji3ji3pai2 is used orally, see gou4wu4 tong1dao4 for the written form, pai2 is the measure word for row -- has come to be used as a noun)

Cheng Hong

第三排

di4 san1 pai2

third aisle

(pai2 is the measure word for row -- has come to be used as a noun)

通道

tong1dao4

aisle, passage

(see ji3ji3pai2 for oral usage)

一眼

yi4 yan3

a peek, a quick look

眼

yan3

eye

并

bing4

to join, to combine, to merge; equally, simultaneously, together; and, moreover

多么

duo1me

how, what

(also used for emphasis -- such a beautiful, so beautiful -- duo1me mei3)

发现

fa1xian4

to find, to discover, to come to light, to appear

进行

jin4xing2

to proceed with, to go ahead, to carry on, to be in progress

计算机

ji4suan4ji1

computer, calculating machine

开始

kai1shi3

to begin, to start

里

-li3

inside, in the area of

(auxillary word to indicate location)

撇

pie1

to neglect, to leave, to cast aside

撇下

pie1xia4

to leave behind

(most often pronounced pie3xia -- there are two pronunciations of the character which are gradually melding into one -- pie1 will be found in the dictionary)

起来

qi3lai

to get up, to rise, to arise, to start