Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/Airport

When you are at the airport in China and in a hurry, actually it's enough when you know only English, because almost all the signs are with English translation and nearly all the ground services know basic English.

But if you want to learn something about Chinese, I think airport is a very good place for you to learn these vocabulary and short sentences, but at first I suggest you to learn Pinyin, so that you can read and spell the following Pinyin correctly.

*Attention: - means the first tone, / means second tone, v means the third and \ means the fourth. And if there ant any of the four tones, that menas a light tone.

vocabulary

• airport: ji- chang v 机场 (我要去机场。）

• plane: fei- ji- 飞机 （他坐飞机起美国。）

• flight: hang/ ban- 航班

• gate/ departure gate/ boarding gate: deng- ji- kou v 登机口 (maybe you have just found that the second character is the same with the "airport"'s first character, they are the same character（机）, it means maschine, and fei-(飞) means fly, so "fei- ji-" (plane) means "fly maschine")

• boarding pass: deng- ji- pai/ 登机牌

• passport: hu\ zhao\ 护照 （请给我看一下你的护照。）

• luggage: xing/ li v 行李

• consignment: tuo- yun\ 托运

• prohibited goods: wei/ jin\ pin v 违禁品 （In chinese airport some goods can not be brought into the plane, you should take attention to it.）

• passport control immigration hu\ zhao\ jian v cha/ chu\ 护照检查处

• China Customs: Zhong- guo/(China) hai v guan- (Customs) 中国海关

• transfer: Zhong- zhuan v 中转

• delayed: yan/ wu\ 延误

• take off: qi v fei- 起飞

• departure lounge: hou\ ji- shi\ 候机室

• terminal: hang/ zhan\ lou/ 航站楼

• 1st: yi- hao\ 1号

• 2nd: er\ hao\ 2号

• 3rd: san- hao\ 3号

• 4th: si\ hao\ 4号

• 5th: wu v hao\ 5号

6、7、8、9、10 liu\ qi- ba- jiu v shi/ (I hope that it wont be more than 10 terminals)

• luggage claim: xing/ li v ling/ qu v chu\ 行李领取处

• toilet: ce\ suo v 厕所

short sentences

• Could you please tell me: qing v wen\ 请问

• where is: na/ li v shi\ 哪里是（哪里有）

• Can you speak English？: nin v neng/ shuo- ying- yu v ma-: 您能说英语吗？

• Can you show me: nin v neng/ dai\ wo v qu\: 您能带我去

• How much: duo- shao v qian/ 多少钱

• In some cases you may need to print your boarding pass yourself in the airport, you can ask:

• Where can I print : wo v yao\ qu\ na/ li v da v yin\ 我要去哪里打印

So much for today, thank you for reading, if you have questions plz contact me, I will reply as soon as possible.