孔雀女 (kǒngquènǚ) peacock woman Usage: “孔雀女”指一些女孩，她们生活在大城市，从小受父母疼爱、生活富足、无忧无虑，金钱观念淡薄，择偶时并不十分注重物质条件。“孔雀女” is a term for girls who live in cities, have been loved by their parents from the day they were born, and have led lives of luxury. They are apathetic towards money and do not pay much attention to the financial situations of suitors.
Category: Chinese Grammar
Chinese grammar: Potential complement 不动bu dong
This is a potential complement that expresses you "can't do something." Don't confuse it with 不懂 as explained in The "-bu dong" (don't understand) Potential Complement.
Chinese phrase translation: 凤凰男 (fènghuángnán) phoenix man
凤凰男 (fènghuángnán) phoenix man Usage: “凤凰男”是指家境贫寒的农村男孩，通过自己的勤奋和努力，依靠自身的能力在城市里立足。他们一般都拥有一份不错的工作，和城市女孩结婚，并逐渐融入城市生活。“凤凰男” means a poor rural boy who relies on his own abilities to gain a foothold in the cities through diligence and effort. He usually has a good job, a wife from the city, and has gradually integrated into city life.
Chinese grammar: Positive and negative potential complements
Verbs can take potential complements that indicate whether or not the action is actually possible. They are useful in Chinese to say if an action can take place.
Chinese grammar: Direction complement
A direction complement is a verbal complement that's used, you guessed it, to describe the direction of a verb. Also known as: 趋向补语 (qūxiàng bǔyǔ), directional complement and complement of direction.
Chinese grammar: 完-wan result complement
Of all the result complements in Chinese, this one is one of the most satisfying to use, since it implies "finishing" something. On it's own, 完 (wán) means "to finish" or "complete." Using it in this grammar structure, it expresses the idea of doing the verb until you are complete.
Chinese grammar: Descriptive complements
In this article, we take a look at how we use 得 (de) to help describe an action. It is one of the characters that often gets confused with 的 and 地， since they could be pronounced as a neutral tone "de"
Chinese grammar: Complements with 到dao, 给gei and 在zai
One of the cool features of Chinese is complements, and in this article we introduce a few of them in Chinese gramamr.
Chinese grammar: If…, then… with 如果ruguo…,就 jiu…
One of the benefits of Chinese is that the grammar is often very logical and concise. In this article, we look at the "如果…,就…" (rúguǒ…, jiù…) structure. We will also look at uses "的话" (dehuà).
Chinese grammar: Expressing actions in progress (full form)
You may have learned that 在 (zài) and 正在 (zhèngzài) can be used before verbs to express that an action is ongoing or in progress. They are used to create the Mandarin equivalent of present continuous in English. But that pattern is actually a part of a longer, fuller pattern. It's rarely used in its full form, but bits and pieces of it are frequently used in everyday speech, so it's important to know the full form, even if you don't use it regularly yourself.
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