{"id":7626,"date":"2019-11-16T20:21:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/xianzai-xian-zai-daily-mandarin-lesson\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T20:21:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T20:21:24","slug":"xianzai-xian-zai-daily-mandarin-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/xianzai-xian-zai-daily-mandarin-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Xianzai \u73b0\u5728- Daily Mandarin Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>  The Mandarin Chinese word for &ldquo;now&rdquo; is xi&agrave;nz&agrave;i, pro<em><\/em>nounced with two fourth to<em><\/em>nes (falling tones). Since time modifiers are im<em><\/em>portant for establishing Mandarin tense, xi&agrave;nz&agrave;i is commo<em><\/em>nly heard in everyday conversation.<\/p>\n<p>  There are two characters in xi&agrave;nz&agrave;i: \u73fe\u5728. The first character, xi&agrave;n, means &ldquo;now&rdquo; or &ldquo;current&rdquo; and the character, z&agrave;i, means &ldquo;located at.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  Xi&agrave;nz&agrave;i can be literally translated as &ldquo;in the present.&rdquo;<br \/>  Examples of Xianzai<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Xi&agrave;nz&agrave;i sh&igrave; j\u012bdi\u01cen zh\u014dng?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u73fe\u5728\u662f\u5e7e\u9ede\u9418?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u73b0\u5728\u662f\u51e0\u70b9\u949f?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What time is it?<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; W\u01d2men xi&agrave;nz&agrave;i ch\u012b f&agrave;n, h\u01ceo b&ugrave; h\u01ceo?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u5011\u73fe\u5728\u5403\u98ef, \u597d\u4e0d\u597d?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u4eec\u73b0\u5728\u5403\u996d, \u597d\u4e0d\u597d?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We will eat now, OK? <\/p>\n<p>  <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1545492337\"><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 Chinese word for &ldquo;now&rdquo; is xi&agrave;nz&agrave;i, pronounced with two fourth tones (falling tones). Since time modifiers are important<\/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":[2406,151,157],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-language-vocabulary","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-in-chinese-word","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin-chinese"],"views":374,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}