{"id":7629,"date":"2019-11-16T23:26:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T23:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/yiqian-yi-qian-daily-mandarin-lesson\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T23:26:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T23:26:51","slug":"yiqian-yi-qian-daily-mandarin-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/yiqian-yi-qian-daily-mandarin-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Yiqian \u4ee5\u524d- Daily Mandarin Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>  There are several ways to talk a<em><\/em>bout the past in Mandarin Chinese. To refer to an unspecified time in the past you can use y\u012dqi&aacute;n.<\/p>\n<p>  Y\u012dqi&aacute;n has two characters: \u4ee5\u524d. The first one, y\u012d, is the same character found in k\u0115y\u012d (\u53ef\u4ee5) and means &ldquo;according to.&rdquo; The second character, qi&aacute;n, means &ldquo;before.&rdquo; Y\u012dqi&aacute;n can be placed either before or after the subject.<br \/>  Examples of Y\u012dqi&aacute;n<br \/>  &nbsp;<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; T\u0101 y\u01d0qi&aacute;n zh&ugrave; z&agrave;i Y\u012bnggu&oacute;.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4ed6\u4ee5\u524d\u4f4f\u5728\u82f1\u570b\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4ed6\u4ee5\u524d\u4f4f\u5728\u82f1\u56fd\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He used to live in England.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Y\u01d0qi&aacute;n t\u0101 b&ugrave; x\u01d0huan k&agrave;n di&agrave;nsh&igrave;.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4ee5\u524d\u5979\u4e0d\u559c\u6b61\u770b\u96fb\u8996\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4ee5\u524d\u5979\u4e0d\u559c\u6b22\u770b\u7535\u89c6\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; She didn&rsquo;t like to watch TV before. <\/p>\n<p>  <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1763136056\"><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>There are several ways to talk about the past in Mandarin Chinese. To refer to an unspecified time in the<\/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":[302,151,157],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-language-vocabulary","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-in-mandarin","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin-chinese"],"views":211,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","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=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}