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Bob Jones
Date : 2009-03-19 / 08:14PM
ni hao Benny
i did your lesson on how to say your nationalitiy. so to say chinese is zhong guo ren.
my question is does the “ren” only apply when talking about a person.
the reason i ask is that i was on the bus and i saw a chinese resturant and its name had “chinese resturant” in it. i remembered the symbol for ren (like an upside down Y) and i couldnt see this character in the translation.
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| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 2009-03-19 / 09:58PM | | Hi Bob, “rén” is used when talking about a person. I think the character you saw is “丫 = yā" not ren
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