{"id":5026,"date":"2019-11-19T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/learn-the-difference-between-ci-ci-and-bian-bian\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:51:35","slug":"learn-the-difference-between-ci-ci-and-bian-bian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/learn-the-difference-between-ci-ci-and-bian-bian\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Difference between \u201c\u6b21(c\u00ec)\u201d and \u201c\u904d(bi\u00e0n)\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bìngrén: Y\u012bsheng, zhèzh\u01d2ng yào z\u011bnme ch\u012b?
\u75c5\u4eba:         \u533b\u751f\uff0c  \u8fd9\u79cd         \u836f    \u600e\u4e48    \u5403\uff1f
Patient: Doctor, how is this medicine to be taken?
Y\u012bsheng: Yìti\u0101n ch\u012b s\u0101n___,  yí __ch\u012b li\u01cengpiàn.
\u533b\u751f:        \u4e00\u5929   \u5403  \u4e09  ___\uff0c\u4e00__\u5403   \u4e24\u7247\u3002
Doctor: Take the medicine three times a day and two pills each time.
A. \u6b21(cì)\uff1b\u904d(biàn)
   
B. \u904d(biàn)\uff1b\u904d(biàn)
   
C. \u6b21(cì)\uff1b\u6b21(cì)
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In Chinese, a classifier is special and some classifiers are easily co<\/em>nfused in meaning and usage, like “\u6b21(cì)” and “\u904d(biàn).”
“\u6b21(cì)” and “\u904d(biàn)” both can be used to describe frequency or how many times you have done something. However, “\u6b21(cì)” emphasizes the frequency of a repeated action rather than the completion of an action or the time spent in performing an action.
Examples
W\u01d2 qùguò li\u01cengcì B\u011biJ\u012bng.
\u6211   \u53bb\u8fc7    \u4e24\u6b21    \u5317\u4eac\u3002
   
I have been to Beijing twice.
W\u01d2 zuòguò s\u0101ncì  f\u0113ij\u012b.
\u6211   \u5750\u8fc7     \u4e09\u6b21   \u98de\u673a\u3002
   
I have taken an airplane three times.
“\u904d(biàn)” emphasizes the amount of time spent doing something and also the completion of an action. So when we focus on the time it takes to do an action and complete an action, we use “\u904d(biàn).”
Examples
Nà bù diàny\u01d0ng w\u01d2 kàn le li\u01cengbiàn.
\u90a3  \u90e8  \u7535\u5f71       \u6211 \u770b   \u4e86 \u4e24\u904d\u3002
   
I watched the film twice.
W\u01d2 m\u011biti\u0101n dú s\u0101nbiàn d\u0101ncí.
\u6211   \u6bcf\u5929     \u8bfb  \u4e09\u904d      \u5355\u8bcd\u3002
   
I read vocabulary three times a day.
In our test above, the doctor wants to stress the frequency of taking the medicine each day rather than stress the completion of taking the medicine or the time spent taking the medicine, so we should use “\u6b21(cì)” in the two blanks.
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