{"id":7630,"date":"2019-11-17T00:28:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T00:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/zai-bu-zai-zai-bu-zai-daily-mandarin-lesson\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T00:28:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T00:28:27","slug":"zai-bu-zai-zai-bu-zai-daily-mandarin-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/zai-bu-zai-zai-bu-zai-daily-mandarin-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Zai Bu Zai \u5728\u4e0d\u5728- Daily Mandarin Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When calling someone on the telephone or otherwise seeing if someone is present, you can use the Mandarin Chinese ex<em><\/em>pression z&agrave;i b&uacute; z&agrave;i, which literally means &ldquo;here not here.&rdquo; This is the positive \/ negative way of forming Mandarin questions, so another way to say this is with the interrogative \u55ce (ma) particle.<\/p>\n<p>  The Chinese character \u5728 z&agrave;i means &ldquo;located at,&rdquo; and the character \u4e0d b&ugrave; is a negating particle used to form negative sentences. When used before z&agrave;i, the fourth tone of b&ugrave; changes to a second (rising) tone. <\/p>\n<p>  Z&agrave;i b&uacute; z&agrave;i is a question meaning &ldquo;Is he \/ she \/ there?&rdquo;<br \/>  Examples of Z&agrave;i B&uacute; Z&agrave;i<br \/>  &nbsp;<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Q\u01d0ng w&egrave;n, W&aacute;ng xi\u0101nsheng z&agrave;i b&uacute; z&agrave;i?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u8acb\u554f, \u738b\u5148\u751f\u5728\u4e0d\u5728?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u8bf7\u95ee, \u738b\u5148\u751f\u5728\u4e0d\u5728?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Excuse me, is Mr. Wang here?<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Or the &ldquo;ma&rdquo; question particle can be used:<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Q\u01d0ng w&egrave;n, W&aacute;ng xi\u0101nsheng z&agrave;i ma?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u8acb\u554f, \u738b\u5148\u751f\u5728\u55ce?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u8bf7\u95ee, \u738b\u5148\u751f\u5728\u5417?<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Excuse me, is Mr. Wang here? <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3023225099\"><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>When calling someone on the telephone or otherwise seeing if someone is present, you can use the Mandarin Chinese expression<\/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":[151,157],"class_list":["post-7630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-language-vocabulary","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin-chinese"],"views":386,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630","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=7630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}