{"id":7601,"date":"2019-11-15T19:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/bu-hao-yi-si-bu-hao-yi-si-daily-mandarin-lesson\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T19:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:21:53","slug":"bu-hao-yi-si-bu-hao-yi-si-daily-mandarin-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/bu-hao-yi-si-bu-hao-yi-si-daily-mandarin-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Bu Hao Yi Si \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d- Daily Mandarin Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Mandarin Chinese phrase for &ldquo;embarrassed&rdquo; is b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave; si. It is frequently used in Chinese culture as a way of saying &ldquo;thank you&rdquo; and &ldquo;sorry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  The Chinese tradition of gift-giving demands that the gift is first refused, and finally accepted with xi&egrave; xie, b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave; si. This is done for any type of gift, including picking up the tab in a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>  B&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave; si is also said to customers if they have been kept waiting or otherwise inconvenienced, even slightly.<\/p>\n<p>  B&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave; si co<em><\/em>nsists of four Chinese characters: \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d. The literal translation is &ldquo;not good meaning.&rdquo;<br \/>  <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1380282614\"><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 phrase for &ldquo;embarrassed&rdquo; is b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave; si. It is frequently used in Chinese culture as a<\/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],"class_list":["post-7601","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"],"views":512,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}