Colors – You will be able to say these colors in Chinese pretty soon!

Black and White – Hey and Bye 黑 / 白

• Hey! Who is there? (I can not see, it’s too dark!)

Hēi – BLACK / DARK

• Bye! (Bye! The lights on, it’s bright and white. You can leave.)

Bái - WHITE

RED – My Favorite Honda Civic

Hóng 红

Honda – Hong(2) -> RED

红 and 白

• 红 事 : Happy

Hong2 shi4

• 白 事 : Sad Bai2 shi4

.. Green Color: LU(4) Sè 绿

色

Is he a LOSER?

.. ..Hong2hong Lu(4)Lu(4) 红红绿绿

• This idiom means “colorful”. For example:

.. ..Zhèlǐ hónghóng lu(4)lu(4) de,(Here) 这里 红 红 绿 绿 的This place is so colorful

Zhēn měi! 真 美 !Really beautiful!

BLUE: Lán – LAN Advertises Microsoft the Blue Giant 蓝 / 兰

Local Area Network (LAN)

Cheng2 and Zi3 –Jackie Cheng and Ziyi 橙 and 紫

Barney is Purple! Barney Teaches “Z…..”

Kāfēi Sè – Brown/Dark Brown Color

QING(1) - Cyan

Remember: Q == ChQing == Ching

Qing(1)Cao(3): Green Grass

Qing also means “green” in China

YELLOW: HUANG(2) – Remember not “Kuang (2)”

“K” – Kuang(2) – means “mad”, doing something out of sense, very

unusual

“H” – Huang(2) – means “yellow”

Se(4) – Sir!

Congratulations! You are not finish Level I of Color Unit. Move to Level II - fine tune your pronunciations. Ready?

Homework

Writing Practice – Write the characters – following the proper

stroke order