{"id":15014,"date":"2019-08-31T00:24:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T00:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/funny-chinese-expression-bu-hao-yi-si-2\/"},"modified":"2019-08-31T00:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T00:24:52","slug":"funny-chinese-expression-bu-hao-yi-si-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/funny-chinese-expression-bu-hao-yi-si-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Chinese Expression: \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<h2>  \tb&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave;si<\/h2>\n<h2>  \t\u4e0d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u597d&nbsp; \u610f\u601d<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>  \tMy girlfriend and I have been staying with my parents here in&nbsp;San Fransico&nbsp;since the 4th of July. My family has been very generous and hospitable to her during that time. Naturally, her response was, <span style=\"color:#006400;\"><font>&ldquo;\u6211\u89c9\u5f97\u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d(w\u01d2 ju&eacute;de b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave;si).&rdquo;<\/font> <\/span>Then she asked me how to say \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d(b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave;si) in English.<\/p>\n<p>  \tI usually find \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d(b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave;si) pretty easy to translate, as it can often correspond to &ldquo;sorry&rdquo; or &ldquo;excuse me&rdquo; in English. When you&rsquo;re a little late to a meeting, you can say \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d (sorry). When you eat the last cookie and then somone else wants one, you can say \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d (sorry). When you bump someone on the subway, you can say \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d (sorry).<\/p>\n<p>  \tBut in this case, my girlfriend&rsquo;s usage was meant to express something like, &ldquo;your kindness is too much,&rdquo; or &ldquo;you&rsquo;re being so nice that it makes me feel too indebted.&rdquo; And she wanted me to come up with one easy word or phrase to translate. When I couldn&rsquo;t, and I asked for help from my sister, and she couldn&rsquo;t either, my girlfriend just laughed: &ldquo;you Americans never feel \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d(b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave;si)!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  \tActually \u610f\u601d(y&igrave;si) has many different meandings as following I have listed. All of them have something to do with what you think. Have you noticed that the bottom parts of the two Chinese characters are <strong>\u5fc3<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>(x\u012bn, heart)?<\/strong> Attention, the second character is a light tone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  \t<span style=\"color:#006400;\"><strong>the word: \u610f\u601d&nbsp; <\/strong><font><strong>y&igrave;si <\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  \t<span style=\"color:#006400;\">1.\u3016meaning;i dea\u3017\u2236\u610f\u4e49;\u9053\u7406\u3002<\/span><br \/>  \t&nbsp; \u4f8b\u5982\uff1a\u4e0d\u8981\u8bef\u4f1a\u6211\u7684\u610f\u601d Please don&rsquo;t misunderstand what I mean.<br \/>  \t<span style=\"color:#006400;\">2.\u3016intention; wish; desire\u3017\u2236\u610f\u56fe;\u7528\u610f\u3002<\/span><br \/>  \t&nbsp; \u4f8b\u5982\uff1a\u6587\u7ae0\u7684\u4e2d\u5fc3\u610f\u601d the key intention of this article<br \/>  \t<span style=\"color:#006400;\">3.\u3016a token of affection, appreciation, etc.\u3017\u2236\u7565\u8868\u5fc3\u610f\u3002<\/span><br \/>  \t&nbsp; \u4f8b\u5982\uff1a\u8fd9\u70b9\u4e1c\u897f\u9001\u7ed9\u60a8,\u5c0f\u610f\u601d,\u522b\u5ba2\u6c14 This is a small token for you. I hope you like it.<br \/>  \t<span style=\"color:#006400;\">4.\u3016suggestion; hint; trace\u3017\u2236\u67d0\u79cd\u8d8b\u52bf\u6216\u8ff9\u8c61\u3002<\/span><br \/>  \t&nbsp; \u4f8b\u5982\uff1a\u6211\u53d1\u73b0\u5979\u5bf9\u4f60\u6709\u7684\u610f\u601d\u5462\uff01 I find she has something special feeling to you.<br \/>  \t<span style=\"color:#006400;\">5. \u3016interest; fun\u3017\u2236\u60c5\u8da3;\u8da3\u5473\u3002<\/span><br \/>  \t&nbsp; \u4f8b\u5982\uff1a\u6253\u4e52\u4e53\u7403\u5f88\u6709\u610f\u601d It is very interesting to play table tennis.<br \/>  \t<span style=\"color:#006400;\">6. \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d (b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave;si): excuse me; sorry; embarressed<\/span><br \/>  \t&nbsp; \u4f8b\u5982\uff1a\u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d\uff0c\u6211\u7684\u4e2d\u6587\u8bf4\u5f97\u4e0d\u597d\u3002 I am sorry, my Chinese is very bad.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-416167069\"><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>My girlfriend and I have been staying with my parents here in&nbsp;San Fransico&nbsp;since the 4th of July. My family has been very generous and hospitable to her during that time. Naturally, her response was, &ldquo;\u6211\u89c9\u5f97\u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d(w\u01d2 ju&eacute;de b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave;si).&rdquo;  Then she asked me how to say \u4e0d\u597d\u610f\u601d(b&ugrave; h\u01ceo y&igrave;si) in English.<\/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":[2874,2853],"tags":[58,1470],"class_list":["post-15014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","category-spoken-chinese","tag-chinese-characters","tag-wo-chinese-character"],"views":158,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}