How do you write...in Chinese?

**Mikawa Ossan** · Nov 23, 2005, 11:56

Hi! I'm curious how to write certain things in Chinese. I don't mean Chinese characters as used in Japan, but Chinese characters used in China.

Sometimes the same words can be written differently in Japan and China. I'm curious about the Chinese end of things.

My first question is, how do you write "English" in Chinese?

Next is "Coca Cola"

And "McDonald's"

Anyone else with a question, please ask!

**4321go** · Nov 23, 2005, 16:56

Coca Cola=可口可乐
McDonald's＝麦当劳
English= 英语

feel free to ask~!

**RockLee** · Nov 23, 2005, 16:57

I asked my girlfriend and she said :
Coca Cola = 可口可乐 (kekou kele)
Mc Donalds = 麦当劳 (mai dang lao)

Weird Chinese

Oh, the time I posted this you already replied hehe ^^

**Mikawa Ossan** · Nov 23, 2005, 17:11

How about "ramen"?

**4321go** · Nov 23, 2005, 18:33

amen? of Christianism?
amen=阿门

**Mikawa Ossan** · Nov 23, 2005, 18:37

No, no! Ramen as in the food.

**4321go** · Nov 23, 2005, 18:45

Oh~! IC! ^_^

Ramen=拉面（拉麵） which the pronunciation is quite similar~ 拉面 pronounce "lamian" , refer to :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen

**Another Aoi Fan** · Mar 21, 2006, 11:55

Originally Posted by 4321go

Oh~! IC! ^_^
Ramen=拉面（拉麵） which the pronunciation is quite similar~ 拉面 pronounce "lamian" , refer to :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen

Lamian isn't Ramen... Ramen are instant noodles... Lamien is Udon. lol

Shin yi mein/mian is Instant Noodles/Ramen. ((My grandparents)) But I think many other Chinese people ((my parents and I)) call is Ramen with a typical Chinese/Asian accent. lol

**Supervin** · Mar 21, 2006, 19:28

Ramen is actually '拉麵'.

Udon is '烏冬麵'.

They're both types of noodles, with the latter being a thicker type.

**huayue** · Jun 19, 2006, 13:20

Originally Posted by Supervin

Ramen is actually '拉麵'.
Udon is '烏冬麵'.
They're both types of noodles, with the latter being a thicker type.

烏冬麵~~~是哪种面呢？

**JimmySeal** · Jun 19, 2006, 14:11

Most of that stuff is showing up funky on my computer, as in the last character of each compound is missing. Whatever they said for English, all I see is 英.

Anyway using the Japanese IME, the Chinese word for English is 英文 - ying wen, I think.

**Glenn** · Jun 19, 2006, 14:38

That means that your browser can't display simplified Chinese text on this forum. Everything that you see as a question mark is a simplified character. By the way, the word was 英語.

**JimmySeal** · Jun 19, 2006, 15:47

Japanese windows seems to be bad at displaying any non-English language other than Japanese. I can select 3 varieties of simplified Chinese, but they just make everything more garbled, and picking unicode didn't help either. I just discovered that picking ユーザー定義 fixes all the Chinese, but screws up mikawa ossan's sig. I'm lost.

Anyway, I think 英文 and 英語 both mean English, but in different contexts.

**RockLee** · Jun 19, 2006, 16:46

Originally Posted by JimmySeal

Japanese windows seems to be bad at displaying any non-English language other than Japanese. I can select 3 varieties of simplified Chinese, but they just make everything more garbled, and picking unicode didn't help either. I just discovered that picking ユーザー定義 fixes all the Chinese, but screws up mikawa ossan's sig. I'm lost.
Anyway, I think 英文 and 英語 both mean English, but in different contexts.

Wow, afaik eibun and eigo are totally different. Eibun means "a sentence in English" whereas eigo means the language "English". not exactly the same you know.

**JimmySeal** · Jun 19, 2006, 18:53

We're talking about Chinese here. 英文 is pronounced ying wen, not eibun. And 英語 is pronounced ying yu.

**Mikawa Ossan** · Jun 19, 2006, 18:57

Jimmy Seal is right. This thread is in the China forum for a reason!

BTW, I noticed that the convenience store chain "Family Mart" in Taiwan is written as 全家, if my memory serves me right. It sounded like a great name for a store to me!

**justin9213** · Jun 20, 2006, 10:06

how do you write "I`m lovin it!"

**JimmySeal** · Jun 20, 2006, 10:17

If I remember correctly, it's something like 我喜歓之, but I saw that 3 years ago, so I could easily be mistaken.

**Glenn** · Jun 20, 2006, 13:45

Just look on any McDonald's cup.

**warakawa** · Jun 22, 2006, 01:45

on the maccus cup, it says 我就喜欢 (wo jiu xi huan), which kinda have the meaning of "i like it no matter how crap it is".
which serves the maccus it's purpose of marketing, eat it no matter how unhealthy it is.

**hot12lips12** · Aug 18, 2007, 14:08

yah, the chinese on the mcDonald cup it means, i just like it...

**kamaru** · Sep 19, 2007, 16:54

Does knowing some Chinese help grasp kanji more?

**Uckey** · Sep 30, 2007, 10:11

" Does knowing some Chinese help grasp kanji more? "

yes, I think so. When I learned Japanese I found it is easy to remember the words cause Chinese characters and kanji is so similar. But learning Japanese without knowing Chinese won't be difficult either.