{"id":4582,"date":"2019-11-20T02:10:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T02:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-wordsvocabulary\/the-common-usages-of-character-jiang-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T02:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T02:10:34","slug":"the-common-usages-of-character-jiang-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/the-common-usages-of-character-jiang-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The common usages of Character \u201c\u5c06\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
This post is to answer a reader’s question regarding the usage of character “\u5c06 ji\u0101ng“. It might look co<\/em>nfusing when character ”\u5c06 ji\u0101ng” is being used in seemingly random places. For example, the following two examples adopt different meanings of ”\u5c06 ji\u0101ng“:<\/p>\n

    Example 1: <\/p>\n

    t\u0101 ji\u0101ng d\u0113ng d\u01cek\u0101i.<\/p>\n

    \u4ed6\u5c06\u706f\u6253\u5f00.<\/p>\n

    He turns on the light.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Example 2:<\/p>\n

    t\u0101 ji\u0101ng lík\u0101i zhèl\u01d0.<\/p>\n

    \u4ed6\u5c06\u79bb\u5f00\u8fd9\u91cc.<\/p>\n

    He will leave here.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In example 1, \u5c06 ji\u0101ng is equivalent as “\u628a b\u01ce“. The sentence pattern in example 1 is like this:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

    who + \u5c06 + what + verb<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

It’s similar to the English pattern as “have something + past tense verb”. You can find more detailed explanation on the usage of ”\u628a b\u01ce” from this lesson: Lesson 10 How to understand and use Chinese sentence pattern “…\u628a…”. It’ll help you understand the usage of \u5c06 ji\u0101ng in this way. It’s exactly the same as ”\u628a b\u01ce“. In essence, example 1 can’t be written this way: \u4ed6\u628a\u706f\u6253\u5f00 t\u0101 b\u01ce d\u0113ng d\u01cek\u0101i.<\/p>\n

Example 2 demo<\/em>nstrates the second common usage of \u5c06 ji\u0101ng. It means: “will; going to”. However, please don’t use \u5c06 ji\u0101ng in any future tense sentence indiscriminately! As a matter of fact, I’d suggest you to avoid using \u5c06 ji\u0101ng of this meaning in your spoken Chinese if you are not co<\/em>nfident enough in using it . Using \u5c06 ji\u0101ng as “will” adds weight to the sentence to indicate significant cause behind the things that are going to happen. It is better to use its other counterpart, such as “\u4f1a huì“, “\u8981 yào” in your spoken Chinese for “will; going to”.<\/p>\n

For example, in your spoken Chinese, to express “He will leave here.”, you can use both of the following with no concern:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

    \u4ed6\u4f1a\u79bb\u5f00\u8fd9\u91cc. (t\u0101 huì lík\u0101i zhèl\u01d0.)<\/p>\n

    \u4ed6\u8981\u79bb\u5f00\u8fd9\u91cc. (t\u0101 yào lík\u0101i zhèl\u01d0.)<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

But if you say “\u4ed6\u5c06\u79bb\u5f00\u8fd9\u91cc.”, people might look at you and wait for more to come. Because by using “\u5c06” in your sentence, you’re implying that “his leaving” is a very significant decision. The difference between “\u5c06 ji\u0101ng” and ”\u4f1a huì” & “\u8981 yào” are subtle. \u5c06 ji\u0101ng is also frequently used in poems.<\/p>\n

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Character \u5c06 can also be pro<\/em>nounced as “jiàng” as the meaning of “general”. It can also be used with other characters as words to carry other meanings, which I will not cover in this post. The goal of this post is to clarify on the two most common usages of \u5c06 ji\u0101ng. Hope my explanation helps.
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