Mandarin: a compilation of a limited # of initials and finals to make a word….?
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at
8:26 am
every word has multiple meanings. So how in the world do you understand people when they talk to you???
Filed under: Learn to Speak Mandarin
Context, context, context.
I think you are confused. Each character has one meaning. Sometimes, a character may have two meanings.
Anyways, English has that, too. How do you determine if read is present or past? Context! Duh.
Each character has one meaning or two.
You’ll know it once you learn Chinese.
what you want to say is "the amount of Chinese syllables is limited to about 400"…
they understand it from the situation (context)…
Chinese language is highly homophonic and therefore contextual…