Mandarin I Berkeley Extension

425 Market Street San Francisco, CA Professor: Virginia Mau

Class 9

Nov. 8, 2011

zhi1dao4 = to know, to be aware of

hui4 = can, be possible, be able to, will, be likely to, be sure to, to assemble, to meet, to gather, to see, union, group, association

neng2 = to be able to, to be capable of, ability, (usually used in the negative) to have the possibility of Notice that has a repeated character: which, though defined as a knife (spoon, ladle; knife, dirk in Chinese Text Project), really signifies for barrier when you compare the words that include this character:

ni2

maid, servant girl; cute girl ni1 or ni2 Buddhist nun; transliteration

lao3

old, aged; experienced

maternal grandmother; midwife mu3 or lao3

tuo4 In the Hebrew lexicon, a camel is forbidden for food (probably because it is too useful). All of these characters above which contain bi1 mean people/things you should not violate. Could this be a visual metaphor for a hymen? The other meanings with this character include dirt, mud, rivers, streams, waterways, something difficult to carry (a lump or heap), slip, stumble, falter; vacillate (all impedances), a stone roller; a heavy stone, a weight, a plummet, etc.

a camel; humpbacked; to carry on the back

Mandarin I Berkeley Extension: Class 9 - Nov. 8, 2011, Virginia Mau, instructor. Notes and irritating commentary by Jennifer Ball. Mandarin Uncensored 9/9/2011: avail. at www.originofalphabet.com rev. 19 November 2011 5:01 PM

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tuo4

ostrich

The other interesting thing about neng2 is that not only does it have two , it also is pronounced with two Ns, which seems amazing coincidental, especially N and Z are the same character, just rotated, and both signify for danger. In most cultures, N signifies for fluid, danger, and the unknown (new).

bi3 = to compare, liken; comparison; than Cowry (on some ugly keychain) From:

bi1 = vagina

What does you suppose humans were first comparing?

bei3

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=cowery&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS314&biw=1191&bih=714&tbm=isch&tbnid=4_JbGJ21o9uHhM:&imgrefurl=http://www.globalcraftsb2b.co.uk/index. php%3Fmanufacturers_id%3D12&docid=1wdkBznLh8kMAM&imgurl=http://www.globalcraftsb2b.co.uk/images/keyfobcowery.jpg&w=350&h=323&ei=90zFTr2tHoeXiQLD3KXiAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vp x=344&vpy=258&dur=236&hovh=216&hovw=234&tx=131&ty=96&sig=114807282916699645298&page=2&tbnh=150&tbnw=217&start=18&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:18

you2yong3 = swimming, to swim

pian2yi4

= small advantages, cheap, inexpensive, euphemism for toilet

bu yo yong = cant swim

duo1shao3 (My note: swimming sure is useful) qian2

= how much, how many, which (number), as much as

you3young4 = useful

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xiao4 bian4

= money, currency, coins

neng2 is more polite and strict,

hui4 is more open, less formal

= convenient, to help out, to make things easy for people, convenience, suitable, having fang1 bian4 money to spare, (euphemism) to go to the toilet

= sea shell; money, currency

= urinate, pass water, urine

The sea shell is a cowry, often used for money in early civilizations. I picked this image (next page) because it shows how similar a cowry is to both an egg and a vagina (bearded clam being one slang

term for vagina). Cowries are white on their undersides, and the sound bei3 is similar to bai2 , which means white. Silver was more important to the Egyptians than gold, possibly because of silvers reflective surface, and this may be true of other early cultures. If you had no mirrors, silver would be more useful than gold. The use of silver ingots can be traced back as far as the Han dynasty (206 BC220 AD)... it was said that China almost avoided the [1933] depression entirely, mainly due to having stuck to the silver standard, (Wikipedia). Page 2
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da4 bian4

= to defecate, excrement, feces

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= sea shell; money, currency square quadrilateral power (such as cube ) classifier for square things upright honest fair and square surname Fang direction party (to a dispute); 11, one side; 12, place; 13, method; 14, prescription; 15, just; 16, then; 15, only then (Note, larger numbers wouldnt print correctly.) Chinese characters and definitions from: http://ctext.org/dictionary http://www.mandarintools.com/ http://www.google.translate http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/8586/ http://www.pleco.com/ http://talaqa.com/chinese/chinese-english-dictionary

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Mandarin I Berkeley Extension: Class 9 - Nov. 8, 2011, Virginia Mau, instructor. Notes and irritating commentary by Jennifer Ball. Mandarin Uncensored 9/9/2011: avail. at www.originofalphabet.com rev. 19 November 2011 5:01 PM