· 7 lists · 282 words
Shopping, clothes and money
Shops, online shopping, clothes, fashion, the bank, personal finance.
What holds these lists together
Money has two names, one for speech and one for print. A price tag says 元; somebody saying the same price out loud says 块, and a tenth of it is 毛. Discounts are counted the other way round from English: 打八折 means you pay eighty per cent, which is twenty per cent off, and learners regularly read it as the reverse. Clothes take two verbs where English uses "wear" for everything: 穿 for clothes and shoes, 戴 for hats, glasses, watches and jewellery — roughly, what you put on rather than get into. Asking for a better price is ordinary at a market and odd in a department store: 便宜一点儿吧. The lists run from the till to the bank, the online shop and the language of fashion.
The seven lists
Spread across the levels
The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.
| Level | Words | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 83 | 29 % |
| 3 | 78 | 28 % |
| 4 | 84 | 30 % |
| 5 | 37 | 13 % |
Practise this category
Multiple choice and gaps, across all seven lists and all 282 words. Whatever you get wrong comes back tomorrow.