{"id":40,"date":"2008-12-31T08:18:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T12:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-12-31T08:18:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T12:18:39","slug":"describing-people-you-know-pt-1-simple-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/describing-people-you-know-pt-1-simple-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Describing People You Know pt. 1 (simple terms)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to describe people using Chinese.\u00a0 Some ways use 4-character idioms, and in other cases you can simply use 2-word phrases.\u00a0 Here are a couple of my favorites which I have encountered during my time thus far in China.\u00a0 A person who doesn&#8217;t keep promises very well is referred to as being <strong>\u4e0d\u9760\u8c31<\/strong>.\u00a0 A person who is somewhat restrained in public company is referred to as <strong>\u6536\u655b<\/strong>.\u00a0 A conservative person is referred to as being <strong>\u4fdd\u5b88<\/strong>\uff0c whereas a more open or liberal person is referred to as being <strong>\u5f00\u653e<\/strong>.\u00a0 However, it is possible to become too open and freewheeling- a person like this is usually referred to as being <strong>\u968f\u4fbf<\/strong>.\u00a0 A person who is able to tell how to treat people is said to <strong>\u6709\u5fc3\u773c<\/strong>.\u00a0 Finally, a person who is very closed-off to the world and has very limited social contact is said to be <strong>\u81ea\u95ed<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you know this word, then you can also describe a person with <strong>\u81ea\u95ed\u75c7<\/strong>(autism).<\/p>\n<p>\u6536\u655b shou1lian3 &#8211; restrained in public, reserved.<br \/>\n\u9760\u8c31 kao4pu3 &#8211; keeping promises.<br \/>\n\u4fdd\u5b88 bao2shou3 &#8211; conservative<br \/>\n\u5f00\u653e kai1fang4 &#8211; liberal<br \/>\n\u968f\u4fbf sui2bian4 &#8211; freewheeling, careless<br \/>\n\u6709\u5fc3\u773c you3xin1yan3 &#8211; able to read how to treat people<br \/>\n\u81ea\u95ed zi4bi4 &#8211; closed-off, shut off from the world<br \/>\n\u81ea\u95ed\u75c7 zi4bi4zheng4 &#8211; autism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to describe people using Chinese.\u00a0 Some ways use 4-character idioms, and in other cases you can simply use 2-word phrases.\u00a0 Here are a couple of my favorites which I have encountered during my time thus far in China.\u00a0 A person who doesn&#8217;t keep promises very well is referred to as being&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/describing-people-you-know-pt-1-simple-terms\/\">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":[3,13],"tags":[378679],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}