"Goodbye!"
Translation:再见！
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The correct answer shown above 'zai jian' (?) is not one of the selections available to answer the question. It accepts instead "bai bai", but I don't think that was introduced earlier, and the audio for it did not play.
yeah same thing happened to me duolingo should make it a differnt question
I'm not so sure, but I think Duo has a problem of pronunciation in Standard Chinese. Maybe it is a regional accent?
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拜拜 is likely an example of Chinese adopting English words phonetically, just like how non-Chinese nouns are "transcribed" into Chinese.
Oh, and the 拼音 is bai4 bai4.
This still happens, but the only 'error' option that Duolingo provides is that the English is unnatural.
The correct answer shown above 'zai jian' (?) is not one of the selections available to answer the question. It accepts instead "bai bai",but I don't think that was introduced earlier, and the audio for it did not play
I may be wrong but 再见 sounds like a slightly more formal way to put it.
The logograms that appear under goodbye when hovered over do not in any way resemble the correct answer. I believe this requires some explanation.
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拜拜 (the 拼音 is bai4 bai4) is likely an example of Chinese adopting English words phonetically, just like how non-Chinese nouns are "transcribed" into Chinese.
Zài Jiàn isnt even an option here?? Im not sure what the last option means, maybe its a different versiom of sayong goodbye? But they could at least explain that ffs.
I asked my Chinese friend. Apparently its "bāi bāi" which is a borrowed from the English "bye bye".
It’s the Hong Kong people who first used “拜拜” [bai bai] to represent/transliterate “Bye bye” in English and then introduced it to the Mainland. Taiwanese people chose the different character “掰掰”[bai bai].
No matter which character you wanna use, we could find “手” [shou 3] (hand) and its variant in both “拜” and “掰”.
“拜” means the greeting/respect gesture that Chinese people make a fist with their one hand and hold it in the palm of the other. You could bow with this hand gesture, which is also a “拜” but too formal for daily life. Namaste is another “拜” to ask, worship and pray, as Buddhism has been popular since the Han Dynasty （AD 64）. If the movement goes more exaggeratedly, you could drop to the floor and knock your forehead on it to demonstrate “kowtowing”. That’s a kind of “拜” only in temples, super solemn ceremonies and tv drama.
“掰” means breaking off things with hands. So there is a “分” [fen 1] (separate/part) inside the two hands. “分” is composed by a “刀” [dao 1] (knife, machete), splitting the stroke above into two. And “分 手”[fen 1, shou3] (let go of hands) means to break up in a relationship.
Both of them fit in the context to some extent. And being loanwords, they are less formal than “再见”[zai 4, jian 4]（again， see #you# = goodbye）and “告辞”[gao 4, ci 2] (deliver， farewell speech= goodbye).
AloeSoothe: I think I'm missing something important here. Why do you put numbers next to the spelling of words like [shou 3] and [dao 1]? Fen is also followed by 1... I'm so confused!
The numbers denote the tone. ni1 = nī, ni2 = ní, ni3 = nĭ, ni4 = nì.
Sorry I didn't install the pinyin keyboard with diacritical marks. And please refer to ThomasTarr1's comment, it explains well.
No comments answered the legitimate questions raised. Why all the snotty remarks instead of helpful answers?
The second symbol it reminds me a man walking out! I think good tip for remembering it. Though the literal meaning I think is "again see"
Turns out its a sort of hybrid slang word, which I guess duolingo maybe put in as an interesting wildcard to break from the monotony of the rest of this lesson (explanation of bai bai: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-say-see-you-later-in-Mandarin-Chinese)
This is a bit confusing, because the correct answer shown is: 拜拜！(bài bài). This is colloquial, and it is also correct, but the problem is that this was not introduced earlier. That's why the correct answer should be 再见！(zài jiàn)
Needs to be clear. Answer is different from other exercises in this lesson.
Practice you will all get better it is worth it don't give up, learning a language can make you feel more in touch with the world
You can actually type in Traditional Chinese Characters for the answers, so if ask about the English translation of "Goodbye!", you can type 再見.
It didn't accept my traditional chinese characters too. I think they only accept the Simplified ones.
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I use the semplified Chinese keyboard on android and i can find only 再見 that is different from the transcription above, using that is wrong for duolingo
I think that it would help if the correct character were not the first option in the array of answers。
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Ultimately it is your choice. However, this course teaches the simplified version, so some traditional options may not be accepted even though they are correct, so it would be preferrable to use the simplified version.
The simplified version is also easier since it was reportedly 'created' to improve literacy rate. Many words, especially those that are not too complicated, are carried forward from the older version while many others are quickly recognizable. It is also, arguably, more useful in this day and age.
The advantages of the traditional version is that it is much easier to 'learn' the simplified version, having known the traditional, than vice versa; Japanese kanji follows the traditional version. Some characters were merged to one simplified character, so some history there may be lost. Since it retains the original features of the characters, it is used to show the evolution of these characters through the passage of time, and to know the reason why a character is so "assembled".
Duolingo accepts 再見 as an answer.
Can anyone say, what is the difference between 再見 and 再见 and what 再見 means exactly?
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They are one and the same. 再见 is the simplified version of 再見. Duolingo teaches simplified chinese but will, as far as I know, accept traditional chinese characters.
I'm really curious why they have changed this. It is indeed the same and yet when I just used 再見 it marked it as incorrect.
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The word bank only gives one possible answer? Seriously? Does Duolingo think we're stupid or something?
Well, it is different from the answer at the top of the page, so for some people this is their introduction to it.
Hello everyone, I always have a problem in this exercise every time when I want to work on my tablet, the app restarts and takes me out of the lesson, but it does not happen in the browser, so I hope someone tells me what is happening and If the same thing happens to someone the same, publish it in this post.
Please take a screenshot and create a technical support discussion through the main discussion at the top of the page.
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I have a problem on previous exercise and can't report it. The answers overlap with the continue button and I must give a wrong answer to continue. When I tap the correct answer it does not show because it overlaps with continue.
Ok, here is actually the explanation for the correct answer for a change: 拜拜 (bái bái) indeed means "bye-bye".
the answer it accepts is 拜拜 (bai bai) which is taken from English Bye Bye. Both 再见 and 拜拜 are things you could say when parting company just like in English Goodbye and Bye bye. the question should be corrected to ask for bye bye or goodbye specifically making a distinction since there are two different phrases.
If you have a hard time remembering Hello-Nihao and Goodbye-Zaijian, Hai(Hey) and Baibai(ByeBye) will suffice.
If you have a hard time remembering nihao and zaijian, then you aren't going to do so hot in this course. Not to be rude, but it is going to take a lot of practice on your part if you have a hard time remembering hi and bye.
They've used the wrong ni. Pronounced as it sounds in the audio example, the translation is. "I eat noodles. Greasy?" (腻)
Duolingo: 再见 means Goodbye! / Me: OK / Duolingo: So what is Goodbye? / Me: 再见 / Duolingo: Nope You lose. It’s 拜拜
Excuse me, phoneticaly speaking ZàiJiàn would be TsàiJiàn or simply ZàiJiàn?
Why is that for the past month all i have been learning is Hello and Goodbye?!
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Looking ahead, this Chinese DuoLingo course doesn't seem to have grammar topics. Does anyone know why? Is it because it's too difficult? Or just not needed?
Oh.. Idk. I tried the chinese pinyin keyboard and it was configured for "traditional". That's why... Thanks.
my opinion, better if there is three answer for this questions. And then we can Select the true answer.
I spelled is zài jiàn and was incorrext because of missing an exclamation point
What is the difference between 'zai jian' and 'zai hao' ? Are they interchangeable? Or is there any difference in the context in which they are used??
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再见 literally means "again see/meet," meaning "see [you] again."
再好 literally means "further better," meaning "(even) better."
(Note 再 is used to mean "one more time, more times, again, further, more.")
Would you help me know why you suspected they're interchangeable?
Does anyone know what the straight translation for jiàn and zài are?
Coming from japanese, 见 appears to be a modern chinese form of 見, but duolingo does not accept the latter. Do they use or even recognize the traditional forms in chinese? Or does my knowlwdge of kanji go to waste here? ;_;
Suggest me chinese keyboard please...the jian present in my keyboard is different
They expect us to write that in Chinese how can i do that? I dont have a chinease keyboard
You install free software keyboard through Settings on your phone or Control panel on your Windows computer. They often work by having you type the pinyin sounds and then they offer you characters to choose from.
I have a problem with what type of chinese keyboard i should use. Anyone pls help
It even makes the answer incorrect when we dont write the accents....for eg- ni hao is wrong as i havent used any accents in it
That is a good thing, because there are many small words with the only difference being those accents which show how it is pronounced. Otherwise. you need to use the numbers or the Chinese characters.
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The funny thing is, dualingo only gave me one choice option for this question. I gpt through it instantly!
I type with keyboard, when I type 再见 it is correct. But when i type 再見 it is wrong.. I mean, the character 見 and 见 is the same right? The different is just Simplified and Traditional.. why ??
When i type 再见 it is correct. But when i type 再見 it is wrong.. why? The character 見 and 见 is the same right? I mean, the difference is just simplified and traditional.. but why??
When i type 再见 it is correct. But when i type 再見 it is wrong.. why? The character 見 and 见 is the same right? I mean, the difference is just simplified and traditional.. but why??
Well.. doesn't it 'zaijian' mean 'see you again' literally? I feel awkward when I see the option 'goodbye'.
I just posted a emoji and they said that its not correct .i made the right answer and posted a emji at the end and thats not correct?
Duolingo is a computer program. It doesn't know what to do with the emoji. It simply knows that it is not part of the answer. Don't add emojis.
Ничего, если на русском языке напишу? Там всего 1 вариант. Выбор был невелик и очевиден.
Theres only one answer now and thankfully its the correct one, but I am curious if my brain will keep it as well for not having comparison characters. Either way, a non-sarcastic Thank you Duolingo team for putting this whole thing together!
I think i have a problem it shows one opinión is this okay? DOES anyone have the same?
What about standard chinese characters? It allows only simplified chinese, i tried for fun tu use 見 instead of 见， but it didn't recognize it....
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I wrote "zài jiàn" and it says it's wrong, when it is exactly how you write it in pinyin...
this is aboslutely diszgusting, i will let you knwo that wo shi zhong guo ren he wo lai zi zhong guo, i will obliterate ni mama because ni mama shi ben he tong xian lian
I dont think duo has a chinese sound promblem the sound is made by real people watch duocon man
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I only now traditional chinese and not the simplified chinese why can't you change that whether you have simplified charachters or not?
I wrote the right answer whit correct spelling then why did u showed that the answer is incorrect by showing the same spelling i wrote in my answer?
Ok so l am not reading so much. Can someone tell the meaning of jiàn in English
Chinese is excellent! We can say very good or excellent which already has "very" built in to its definition.
IT SHOULD BE RIGHT BEACUSE IT IS SAID WRITE ZAIJIAN IN ENGLISH I WROTE IT FROM KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!!!!
What exactly did you put? If you were to write in English, the answer would be "Goodbye!" "Zaijian" is in pinyin, not English.
Do you have any idea how many times i've lost my streak So i've gotten to the dimond league and then fell back to the pearl league so now i've getting back to it Douligo has also helped me say some words in Chinese. So now I wan't say to Douligo thank you for teaching me.