{"id":7657,"date":"2019-11-18T04:12:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/yi-yang-yi-yang-daily-mandarin-lesson\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T04:12:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:12:06","slug":"yi-yang-yi-yang-daily-mandarin-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/yi-yang-yi-yang-daily-mandarin-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Yi Yang \u4e00\u6837- Daily Mandarin Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When comparing things and people, we often say that two things are the same. The Mandarin Chinese phrase for &ldquo;similar&rdquo; or &ldquo;equal&rdquo; is y&iacute; y&agrave;ng.<\/p>\n<p>  There are two characters that make up y&iacute; y&agrave;ng: \u4e00\u6a23. The first one (y&iacute;) is the number one. It is usually pro<em><\/em>nounced with a high and level tone (first tone) but because it comes before a falling tone (fourth tone), the tone of y&iacute; changes from the first to the second (rising).<\/p>\n<p>  The second character of y&iacute; y&agrave;ng is\u6a23 which means &ldquo;manner,&rdquo; &ldquo;pattern,&rdquo; or &ldquo;way,&rdquo; The literal translation of y&iacute; y&agrave;ng, then, could be &ldquo;one pattern&rdquo; &ndash; two things made from the same pattern. <\/p>\n<p>  Examples of Yi Yang<br \/>  &nbsp;<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; N&agrave; li\u01ceng zh\u012b b\u01d0 ch&agrave;budu\u014d y&iacute; y&agrave;ng.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u90a3\u5169\u679d\u7b46\u5dee\u4e0d\u591a\u4e00\u6a23\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u90a3\u4e24\u679d\u7b14\u5dee\u4e0d\u591a\u4e00\u6837\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Those two pens are almost the same.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; W\u01d2men de ch\u0113 z\u01d0 y&iacute; y&agrave;ng.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u5011\u7684\u8eca\u5b50\u4e00\u6a23\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u4eec\u7684\u8f66\u5b50\u4e00\u6837\uff61<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Our cars are the same. <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3456953967\"><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 comparing things and people, we often say that two things are the same. The Mandarin Chinese phrase for &ldquo;similar&rdquo;<\/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-7657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-language-vocabulary","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin-chinese"],"views":210,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657","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=7657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}