How To Read The Sign In A Shop
English - Gold
Chinese sign for gold
金
It looks like a little roof over a house.
English Silver
Chinese sign for silver, has two signs pushed to fit the square of Chinese writing which makes it neat on the page. The left-hand sign you can see is gold, narrowed, so it is not gold but something else, silver.
銀
How can you recognize and remember this sign, which looks like gold but is silver?
I look at the gold sign with the roof over the house or treasury, then the sign, above right, like those wrought iron signs over the doors in the old shops in alleys of the old city, with the warning x underneath telling you it is not gold. Gold? Er, no, sign says silver.
Watch out for
Gold-plated
Looks more like the adjective comes first, plated gold. Gold with a cross, not solid gold, but it is gold, only plated.
鍍金
Silver-plated
鍍銀
Now you see the signs together. Gold but not gold on the right is silver. But the adjective is in front in Chinese. Gold but not gold the sign is plated. Plated silver meaning silver-plated.
How to say it
Gold - Jīn
How to remember it? After drinking gin, I was keep to by the gold.
However, I could not afford the gold and yearned for something small in silver. Not gin but yin.
yín - silver
dùjīn - gold-plated
dù yín - silver-plated
How do remember the word for gold-plated. Do you mind gold-plated goods? dùjīn - gold-plated
More information from
Google translate
Learn Chinese with
Chineasy
Cards and a book.
Useful reviews on Goodreads. One recommended:
'Heisig, Matthews, Jing-Hua Yin and use Skritter'.
Duolingo
Memrise
Useful Websites
singaporeair.com
Singapore flag.
Travel to China, Singapore, and other countries using the same or similar signs, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan.
Travel Information Websites
Singapore Airlines
singaporeair.com
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Teacher of English and other languages. I have many more posts on learning languages. Please share links to your favourite posts.
English - Gold
Chinese sign for gold
金
It looks like a little roof over a house.
English Silver
Chinese sign for silver, has two signs pushed to fit the square of Chinese writing which makes it neat on the page. The left-hand sign you can see is gold, narrowed, so it is not gold but something else, silver.
銀
How can you recognize and remember this sign, which looks like gold but is silver?
I look at the gold sign with the roof over the house or treasury, then the sign, above right, like those wrought iron signs over the doors in the old shops in alleys of the old city, with the warning x underneath telling you it is not gold. Gold? Er, no, sign says silver.
Watch out for
Gold-plated
Looks more like the adjective comes first, plated gold. Gold with a cross, not solid gold, but it is gold, only plated.
鍍金
Silver-plated
鍍銀
Now you see the signs together. Gold but not gold on the right is silver. But the adjective is in front in Chinese. Gold but not gold the sign is plated. Plated silver meaning silver-plated.
How to say it
Gold - Jīn
How to remember it? After drinking gin, I was keep to by the gold.
However, I could not afford the gold and yearned for something small in silver. Not gin but yin.
yín - silver
dùjīn - gold-plated
dù yín - silver-plated
How do remember the word for gold-plated. Do you mind gold-plated goods? dùjīn - gold-plated
More information from
Google translate
Learn Chinese with
Chineasy
Cards and a book.
Useful reviews on Goodreads. One recommended:
'Heisig, Matthews, Jing-Hua Yin and use Skritter'.
Duolingo
Memrise
Useful Websites
singaporeair.com
Singapore flag.
Travel to China, Singapore, and other countries using the same or similar signs, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan.
Travel Information Websites
Singapore Airlines
singaporeair.com
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Teacher of English and other languages. I have many more posts on learning languages. Please share links to your favourite posts.
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