English words and phrases below that come straight out of Chinese Quiz by Ghayes

Clue	English word	Derived from (Chinese)
Nice dinnerware		秦 (Qin - an early Chinese dynasty)
A common tea type		茶 (Cha - meaning 'tea')
Your soul / spirit		气 (Qi - meaning 'breath')
A stress reducing martial art
A more serious martial art		功夫 (Gong fu - meaning 'effort')
The art of aesthetical arragements
A light clothing material		絲 (Si - meaning 'silk')
A brunch buffet of sorts

Clue	English word	Derived from (Chinese)
A common table condiment
A ninja's weapon
A powerful businessman
To be adamant / riled up		工合 (Gong he ... a corporate slogan)
The Way		道 (Dao - meaning 'the way')
A symbol of interconnectivity
'It's been a while'
Hurry Hurry!		速速 (Chuk chuk - Meaning 'hurry')

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English from China Quiz

by Ghayes

Created Sep 28, 2009 in Language
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	vixinu:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT		2 points
	It is most often called "gung ho" in english

	Kaleb:	Oct 13th, 2009 at 05:49 GMT		5 points
	Nice idea for a quiz! Needs a couple corrections though, dim sum is not a buffet (you pay for how many dishes you get), and I don't really think chai tea is chinese...

	marpocky:	Dec 21st, 2009 at 04:53 GMT		8 points
	What about oolong?

	JimKatz:	Dec 31st, 2009 at 19:30 GMT		3 points
	Should accept more variants of nunchaku.

	WAG:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 21:00 GMT		2 points
	i thought gung ho was Japanese.

	lznyc212:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 06:41 GMT		5 points
	Oolong should be accepted for a common tea.

	mgmx:	Apr 15th, 2010 at 04:36 GMT		2 points
	Chai is Indian

	Williams27:	May 16th, 2010 at 21:49 GMT		4 points
	1) "ketchup" and "silk" are both a bit speculative 2) lots of these actually didn't enter English from Mandarin, e.g. "nunchaku" is Japanese and only has the most tenuous connection to Mandarin, and "chop chop" and "dim sum" are from Cantonese; in fact "dim sum" is exactly how it's pronounced in Cantonese and it's a bit misleading for you to give Mandarin "dian xin" since it actually has a rather different connotation 3) @Kaleb it's irrelevant that (masala) chai isn't from China, the word indubitably is. Rather a confused quiz, sorry!

	QuintFan:	Jul 13th, 2010 at 22:18 GMT		3 points
	I missed three, even though I am a (white) Chinese teacher. The one I think should be pulled is nunchaku. Almost all Japanese weapon names come from Chinese, but are (like this word) not Chinese. That is a Japanese pronunciation of it. I agree that oolong should be either an extra popup or alternative correct answer for the tea question, and yes chai is Indian...not sure what you want to do about that.

	Firemarsh:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 12:39 GMT		1 point
	Tea is directly borrowed from Chinese, and chai is Indian which is itself a derivative from Chinese

	noob:	Nov 28th, 2010 at 19:22 GMT		2 points
	Dim Sum is from Cantonese and the characters can be said to be from the Cantonese. If something is from a regional language and is quite blatantly pronounced in a regional language then there is no need for the Mandarinization of the words. Similarly the phrase Tycoon comes from the Cantonese pronunciation actually in a similar way that Peking, Nanking and the others come from the Cantonese. Great quiz though!

	Zoingy:	Dec 12th, 2010 at 17:50 GMT		0 points
	I'm Chinese and I'm pretty sure I've never heard of half of these being derived from Chinese

	slengtorm:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 05:33 GMT		1 point
	Pretty confusing since about half of them are Cantonese and the revealed answer shows pinyin. Also, "yin" and "yang" mean something closer to "secret" and "overt" than "dark" and "light."

	samcash13593:	Apr 28th, 2011 at 20:26 GMT		1 point
	i have never heard of chai tesz, so i just tried cha. isnt chai the japanese for tea?

	Monkeylabs:	Feb 20th, 2012 at 05:31 GMT		1 point
	Never knew tycoon was derived from Chinese! BTW I have to point out that Taichi is a branch of Kungfu so that Taichi is a type of Kungfu but Kungfu does not limit to taichi.

	Pandamoose:	May 31st, 2012 at 22:27 GMT		3 points
	I must say your quiz is rather terrible. most of these words don't have chinese roots at all: china - was named china because of the country not the qin dynasty chai - not from china and isn't based on cha silk - originates from the greek/latin times dim sum - it's actually cantonese, not your mandarin explanation ketchup - didn't come from chinese nunchaku - is japanese tycoon - I don't see how it's even remotely related to "da guan" long time no see - that's just weak. many languages say this. chop chop - doesn't even make sense that it originates in chinese.

	leprasia:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 08:09 GMT		1 point
	I agree with Pandamoose that this quiz is quite terrible. Dim sum is referring to the type of food served, not the brunch buffet of sorts. That should be yam cha instead. Yin yang is better described as complementary. But this is probably the result of using Wikipedia as your sole reference source.