{"id":7680,"date":"2019-11-19T02:10:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/mama-huhu-ma-ma-hu-hu-daily-mandarin-lesson\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T02:10:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:10:49","slug":"mama-huhu-ma-ma-hu-hu-daily-mandarin-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/mama-huhu-ma-ma-hu-hu-daily-mandarin-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama Huhu \u9a6c\u9a6c\u864e\u864e- Daily Mandarin Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The rules of etiquette in Chinese culture state that compliments must be rejected. Therefore, if someone tells you that you speak Mandarin well, you should reply, &ldquo;Not at all, my Mandarin is very poor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  A good way to say this is with the Mandarin Chinese phrase \u25bam\u01cem\u01ce h\u01d4h\u01d4. This could be prefaced with n\u01celi n\u01celi, which means &ldquo;wher?&rdquo; &ndash; as in, &ldquo;wher is my good Mandarin? I don&rsquo;t see it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  M\u01cem\u01ce h\u01d4h\u01d4 is made up of four Chinese characters: \u99ac\u99ac\u864e\u864e. The first two characters mean &ldquo;horse&rdquo; and the second two characters mean &ldquo;tiger.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  Why does &ldquo;horse horse tiger tiger&rdquo; mean &ldquo;mediocre?&rdquo; It&rsquo;s neither one nor the other &ndash; it&rsquo;s so-so, mediocre.<br \/>  Example of Mama Huhu<br \/>  &nbsp;<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u25baN\u01d0 de gu&oacute;y\u01d4 shu\u014d de h\u011bn h\u01ceo.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4f60\u7684\u570b\u8a9e\u8aaa\u5f97\u5f88\u597d\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4f60\u7684\u56fd\u8bed\u8bf4\u5f97\u5f88\u597d\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your Mandarin is very good.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u25baN\u01celi n\u01celi &#8211; m\u01cem\u01ce h\u01d4h\u01d4.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u54ea\u88e1\u54ea\u88e1 \u99ac\u99ac\u864e\u864e\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u54ea\u91cc\u54ea\u91cc \u9a6c\u9a6c\u864e\u864e\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Not at all &ndash; it&rsquo;s very bad. <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1740268434\"><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 rules of etiquette in Chinese culture state that compliments must be rejected. Therefore, if someone tells you that you<\/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":[58,44,118,151,157,194],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-language-vocabulary","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-characters","tag-chinese-culture","tag-culture","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin-chinese","tag-speak-mandarin"],"views":443,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","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=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}