{"id":137,"date":"2009-09-06T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=137"},"modified":"2009-09-06T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T17:42:38","slug":"border-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/border-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I wanted to <strong>\u8fc7\u5173<\/strong> (cross the border), and so I hopped on the usual <strong>\u73ed\u8f66<\/strong> (shuttle bus) to the border station.\u00a0 There I noticed a sign saying that you couldn&#8217;t carry more than\u00a0 2000\u652f cigarettes.\u00a0 For purchasing bus tickets into the city, you can use <strong>\u516b\u8fbe\u901a<\/strong> (octopus card) which is similar to Beijing&#8217;s <strong>\u4e00\u5361\u901a<\/strong> (yikatong stored-value card).\u00a0 Once you&#8217;re through the <strong>\u53e3\u5cb8<\/strong> (port) and have nothing to <strong>\u7533\u62a5<\/strong> (declare), you&#8217;re pretty much in the clear.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t yet noticed stronger border controls due to <strong>\u56fd\u5e86<\/strong> (national founding holiday) but we&#8217;ll see what happens as October approaches.\u00a0 In the meantime, I&#8217;m enjoying my new <strong>\u4e00\u5361\u53cc\u53f7<\/strong> (1 card 2 numbers) phone which switches between sides of the border so I can&#8217;t be charged for <strong>\u6f2b\u6e38<\/strong> (roaming).<br \/>\nwords<\/p>\n<p>\u8fc7\u5173 guo4guan1 &#8211; cross the border<br \/>\n\u73ed\u8f66 ban1che1 &#8211; shuttle bus<br \/>\n2000\u652f &#8211; 2000 cigarettes (measure word)<br \/>\n\u516b\u8fbe\u901a ba1da2tong1 &#8211; octopus stored value card of HK<br \/>\n\u4e00\u5361\u901a yi1ka3tong1 &#8211; similar card in Beijing with limited rollout<br \/>\n\u53e3\u5cb8 kou3an4 &#8211; port<br \/>\n\u7533\u62a5 shen1bao4 &#8211; report<br \/>\n\u56fd\u5e86 guo2qing4 &#8211; country&#8217;s anniversary<br \/>\n\u4e00\u5361\u53cc\u53f7 &#8211; yi1ka3shuang1hao4 &#8211; 1 card 2 numbers<br \/>\n\u6f2b\u6e38 man4you2 &#8211; roaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I wanted to \u8fc7\u5173 (cross the border), and so I hopped on the usual \u73ed\u8f66 (shuttle bus) to the border station.\u00a0 There I noticed a sign saying that you couldn&#8217;t carry more than\u00a0 2000\u652f cigarettes.\u00a0 For purchasing bus tickets into the city, you can use \u516b\u8fbe\u901a (octopus card) which is similar to Beijing&#8217;s \u4e00\u5361\u901a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/border-crossings\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}