City and urban words
👋 Welcome to this fortnight’s issue of the Giant Mandarin newsletter. In this issue, I cover words on the topic of cities and urban areas.
🎯 Words
城市 chéngshì - city 🏙
城市化 chéngshìhuà - urbanization 🌐
座 zuò - measure word for many large, immovable objects, including cities and buildings
首都 shǒudū - capital city 🏛
都市 dūshì - large city; metropolis 🌉
城市居民 chéngshì jūmín - city resident 👋
人山人海 rénshānrénhǎi - very crowded (literally, mountains and seas of people) 🏔 🌊
交通 jiāotōng - traffic 🚦
堵车 dǔchē - traffic jam 🚗 🚗 🚗
出租车 chūzūchē - taxi; cab 🚕
公共汽车 gōnggòngqìchē - bus 🚌
地铁 dìtiě - subway; metro 🚇
城市中心 chéngshì zhōngxīn - city center
办公室 bàngōngshì - office ☕️
商业区 shāngyèqū - business district 👨💼
工业区 gōngyèqū - industrial district 👷♂️
景点 jǐngdiǎn - tourist spot 🤳
公寓 gōngyù - apartment 🌃
商场 shāngchǎng - shopping center 🛍
👀 Recommendations
🎧 Podcast episode. Recipe Club: Eggplant (55 minutes, March 9, 2021, Spotify, Apple Podcasts)
Dave and Chris are rejoined by Priya Krishna to respectfully discuss the three recipes they have chosen to represent a particularly polarizing vegetable at the Recipe Club roundtable: eggplant.
🎧 Podcast episode. The China History Podcast: Sino-Roman Relations (Part 1) (32 minutes, March 7, 2022, Spotify, Apple Podcasts)
This is sort of a strange topic. In Part 1 we'll look at the early history that took place between the Han Dynasty and the Western Roman Empire. Before we tuck into the chicken ribs that are Sino-Roman Relations, I'll introduce you to the far-out theory that Professor Homer Dubs came up with in the 1950s. A lot of people swear this happened. Then we'll look at the famous Gan Ying mission of 97 AD and take it from there.
🎧 Podcast episode. The China History Podcast: Sino-Roman Relations (Part 2) (28 minutes, March 22, 2022, Spotify, Apple Podcasts)
In this episode, we will finish up this overview of the relations between Rome and China. The Roman Empire in the West ended in 476. In this Part 2 episode, we'll look at relations between the Byzantine Empire and China during the Tang, Song, and Yuan. As you'll soon discover the Nestorians and then later the Catholics led by John of Montecorvino dominated official and unofficial relations between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Empire of China.
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