{"id":1958,"date":"2009-03-31T23:35:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2015-12-15T16:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T08:13:57","slug":"how-to-write-adverbs-in-hanyu-pinyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/how-to-write-adverbs-in-hanyu-pinyin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write adverbs in Hanyu Pinyin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/pronun-and-orth.gif\" alt=\"cover of Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and Orthography\" style=\"float: right; width: 138px; height: 200px;\" \/>I thought <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/yin_binyong\/o07_adverbs.pdf\"><strong>how to write adverbs in Hanyu Pinyin<\/strong><\/a> (1.1 MB PDF) would be the logical follow-up to last week&#8217;s posting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/how-to-write-verbs-in-hanyu-pinyin\/\">rules for verbs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Most of these are pretty straightforward, so I won&#8217;t discuss much here. <\/p>\n<p>One note: Although reduplicated <em>verbs<\/em> lose the tone on their second syllable, reduplicated <em>adverbs<\/em> do not:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"py\">g&#257;ngg&#257;ng<\/span> &#21083;&#21083; (just now)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">j&#464;nj&#464;n<\/span> &#20677;&#20677; (only; merely)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">ch&#225;ngch&#225;ng<\/span> &#24120;&#24120; (often)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">sh&#257;osh&#257;o<\/span> &#31245;&#31245; (a bit; slightly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some of the adverbs for which examples are given: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"py\">d&#333;u<\/span> &#37117; (all)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">zh&#464;<\/span> &#21482; (only)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">zu&#236; <\/span>&#26368; (most, -est) <\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">g&#232;ng<\/span> &#26356;  (even more),  <span class=\"py\">b&#464;ji&#224;o<\/span> &#27604;&#36611;\/&#27604;&#36739; (relatively)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">h&#283;n<\/span> &#24456; (very),  t&#224;i &#22826; (extremely; too)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">g&#257;ng<\/span> &#21083;\/&#21018; (just now), <span class=\"py\">y&#464;jing<\/span> &#24050;&#32147;\/&#24050;&#32463; (already),  <span class=\"py\">c&#233;ngjing<\/span> &#26366;&#32147;\/&#26366;&#32463; (in the past)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">ji&#249;<\/span> &#23601; (then), <span class=\"py\">ji&#257;ng<\/span> &#23559;\/&#23558; (in the near future)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">c&#225;i<\/span> &#25165; (finally)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">h&#225;i<\/span> &#36996;\/&#36824;<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">y&#242;u<\/span> &#21448; (again; too)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">z&#224;i<\/span> &#20877; (again)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"py\">y&#283;<\/span> &#20063; (also, too)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, I recommend this to not just those interested in Pinyin orthography but also to those learning Mandarin (esp. those who are at least at the intermediate level). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought how to write adverbs in Hanyu Pinyin (1.1 MB PDF) would be the logical follow-up to last week&#8217;s posting of the rules for verbs. Most of these are pretty straightforward, so I won&#8217;t discuss much here. One note: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/how-to-write-adverbs-in-hanyu-pinyin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,106,28,95,32,20,600,19,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-hanyu","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-pinyin-rules","category-romanization","category-teach-chinese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}