{"id":7605,"date":"2019-11-15T23:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T23:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/things-dong-xi-dong-xi\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T23:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T23:16:41","slug":"things-dong-xi-dong-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/things-dong-xi-dong-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Things &#8211; Dong Xi \u4e1c\u897f"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Mandarin word for &quot;thing&quot; or &quot;things&quot; is d\u014dngxi. It is made up of two characters: \u6771 (d\u014dng) means &quot;east&quot; and \u897f (x\u012b) means &quot;west&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>  When these two characters are used together, \u6771\u897f can mean &quot;east and west&quot;, but more commo<em><\/em>nly they refer to things in general.<br \/>  Examples<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; W\u01d2 y&agrave;o q&ugrave; m\u01cei d\u014dngxi.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u8981\u53bb\u8cb7\u6771\u897f\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u8981\u53bb\u4e70\u4e1c\u897f\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am going shopping. (I am going to buy things.)<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; N&egrave;i g&egrave; d&agrave; de d\u014dngxi sh&igrave; sh&eacute;nme?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u90a3\u500b\u5927\u7684\u6771\u897f\u662f\u4ec0\u9ebc?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u90a3\u4e2a\u5927\u7684\u4e1c\u897f\u662f\u4ec0\u4e48?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What is that big thing? (or &quot;those big things&quot;) <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3291372173\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mandarin word for &quot;thing&quot; or &quot;things&quot; is d\u014dngxi. It is made up of two characters: \u6771 (d\u014dng) means &quot;east&quot;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2841,4],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-7605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-language-vocabulary","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-mandarin"],"views":313,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}